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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. -- Lord Byron
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. -- Lord Byron
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. -- Samuel Richardson
Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way. -- Margaret Atwood
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. -- Gabrielle Zevin
I'm drawn to bad romances. -- Lady Gaga
I write nothing but contemporary romances. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive. -- Helen Fisher
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. -- Roger Ebert
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. -- Gene Tierney
I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice. -- Simone Elkeles
I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do. -- Simone Elkeles
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. -- Thomas Bulfinch
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. -- Thomas Bulfinch
No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters. -- Amanda Seyfried
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
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. -- Tina St. John
People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. -- Nina Dobrev
I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come. -- Jean Reno
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. -- Nancy Werlin
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny. -- Melissa Pritchard
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. -- Sandra Brown
Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love. -- Sarah MacLean
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines. -- Sarah MacLean
They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances. -- Shiri Appleby
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to. -- Lisa Gardner
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
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating. -- Holly Madison
All romances end at marriage. -- Thomas Hardy
It rekindles the great Hollywood romances. -- Richard Corliss
Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused. -- Mason Cooley
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances -- Robert E. Lee
Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily. -- Mason Cooley
romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over. -- Mimi Sheraton
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances. -- Jonathan Swift
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. -- Walt Whitman
Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience. -- Sean Pertwee
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. -- Johann Georg Hamann
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later. -- David Cronenberg
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting. -- Kelly Link
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. -- Henry Fielding
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. -- Nina Dobrev
Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous. -- Burt Reynolds
I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I've found that readers of historical romances really like series because they get to revisit characters and find out what happens with them. I've done several series. -- Nicole Jordan
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same. -- Isadora Duncan
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. -- Kenneth Turan
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to. -- Donald Miller
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. -- Thomas Gray
I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died. -- Karin Slaughter
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island." -- Will Cuppy
Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold. -- Howard Schultz
I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers. -- Gina Lollobrigida
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history. -- Charles-Francois Dupuis
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual. -- Baldur von Schirach

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