Roxane Gay Quotes

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

I think women love to read love stories.

You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

I am such a diehard romantic. I guess a part of me thinks I am Juliet.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

I want to do a love story. I really want to do a love story.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.