Robyn Carr Quotes

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

I like reading romantic novels.

almost all novels are love stories.

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

YVM' is a feel-good romance.

Romantic films are not a genre I would choose.

The good romances are as good as anything.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

Do you want this to be a love story?

I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.