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Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story. -- James Nicoll
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. -- Mark Pellegrino
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance. -- Melissa Pritchard
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. -- Adora Svitak
I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. -- George Saintsbury
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
I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven't come together. More stories like that need to be explored. -- Nimrat Kaur
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
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence. -- Alan Ball
I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion. -- Om Puri
Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind. -- Janet Maslin
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life. -- Melissa Pritchard
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person. -- Lauren Willig
In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. -- Chow Yun-Fat
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction. -- Rainbow Rowell
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. -- Erich von Stroheim
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
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach. -- Jason Reitman
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story. -- Virginia Henley
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
There's no good story without romance. -- Stephenie Meyer
It's not a romance, it's a love story. -- Sadie Jones
Romance is all about making a story out of our love -- Joey Comeau
The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. -- Leslie Ludy
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance. -- David Levithan
If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you. -- Karen Marie Moning
I'm not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don't need a romance to complete a story about a woman -- Greta Gerwig
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show. -- Francis Ford Coppola
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision -- Hugo Gernsback
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. -- Anthony Trollope
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story. -- Chauncey Depew

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