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A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. -- Judith McNaught
Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. -- Jourdan Dunn
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. -- Simone Elkeles
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. -- Lisa Gardner
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. -- Albert Einstein
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel. -- Julia Quinn
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. -- Aurora Rose Reynolds
The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true. -- Roger Ebert
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. -- Suzanne Brockmann
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out. -- Matthea Harvey
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to be embarassed by some supercilious male clerk in the bookstore. -- Karen Marie Moning
As for the military or service professionals, I have nothing but respect for them, but come on, when it comes to romance novels, we all know it's really about the uniforms and how the guys look in them! -- Jill Shalvis
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot. -- Kathleen Hanna
Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that. -- Meg Cabot
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. -- Janet Evanovich
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories. -- Nicholas Sparks
The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls. -- Corey Feldman
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is. -- Francine Pascal
I don't write romance novels. -- Nicholas Sparks
I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels. -- Lauren Willig
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. -- Nicholas Sparks
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. -- Dorothy Allison
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. -- Mark Pellegrino
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. -- Patton Oswalt
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. -- Melissa Pritchard
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel. -- Julia Quinn
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer. -- Chevy Stevens
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. -- Lisa Gardner
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner. -- Teresa Medeiros
One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored? -- Sarah MacLean
Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that? -- Lori Wilde
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book. -- Julia Quinn
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented. -- Tess Gerritsen
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Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Gena Showalter
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. -- Patton Oswalt
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. -- Julia Quinn
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance. -- Louis MacNeice
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! -- Oliver Goldsmith
You thought since we were the ones left over we'd magically become a couple? How storybook--three sets of perfectly matched couples, right? Like that ever happens. This isn't some romance novel. -- Alice Clayton
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. -- Sarah MacLean

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