#roman

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. ↗

— John Boorman

#both #both sides #david #disciplined #englishman

This isn’t about validation, this is about having someone’s hand to hold when I’m walking through the creepy forest. I really thought of that tonight. Life is sometimes one great big creepy forest, and as much as I love you, we are both getting to the age where each other just isn’t enough. ↗

— Davee Jones

#love #romance #age

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ↗

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for more than two weeks every year, if they comeback at all. The intruders never thought about what happens once they leave. ~ Stella ↗

— Michele Richard

#coming-of-age #military #pregnancy #romance-novels #young-adult-fiction

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

#books #character #character development #development #harder

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #every #general #get #i

For me the genre of romance is about the characters. It’s about following a journey between two people and watching them grow and develop and have their lives change for the better because of their presence in each other’s world. ↗

— Samantha Young

#romance #change

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. ↗

— Jane Campion

#around #both #built #dealing #fact

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#chastity #counts #historical #kind #only