I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap. ' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.
She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.
One is never too old for romance.
No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but I keep going back to just five or six certain filmmakers. In literature I like Chekhov, for example; I think he's my favorite. And Flaubert - you know, that kind of concision. But I also like Tolstoy; I love those romances that, you know, weigh 500 pounds and take months and months and months to read.
The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations. . . . . may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier. . . The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish. . . Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.
Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.
You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.