Teresa Medeiros Quotes

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

'The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

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.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

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?

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

I like romance in films. I like love in films.

We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure.

The good romances are as good as anything.

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

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

When the journalists asked Gene, 'Why didn't you marry the beautiful girl in 'The Woman in Red'?' he would always reply, 'I did!'

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.