#novels

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#first #i #just #novels #onion

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#around #dissatisfied #doom #gave #i

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science-fiction #science

I would have told you earlier, but as it was your birthday . . . What do you give the man who has everything? I thought I’d give you . . . me.” He puts the keychain down on the bedside table and snuggles in beside me, pulling me into his arms against his chest so that we’re spooning. “It’s perfect. Like you. ↗

— E.L. James

#novel

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#fairy-tales #romance-novels #novel

Love means never having to say you're sorry ↗

— Erich Segal

#love

I was where my heart held out hope that someday I would be again. It was the reason I never forgot him. My heart had held onto him. And as he clung to me, as he soothed me, held me, I felt everything begin to relax. ↗

— Rebecca Ethington

#romantic-love #love

She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#angels-and-demons-love #romance-novels #ya #love

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#humor #leisure #novels #reading #humor

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels. ↗

— Clementine Holzinger

#humor #reading #romance-novels #humor