Laurie Colwin Quotes

I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.

The fascination of somebody with original creative gifts is something that's always drawn me. I get attached to them, but I can't call it being in love, because the words are so debased.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

I think women love a passionate love story.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Sure, yes, there are smoking-hot girls. But my girlfriend's smoking hot, my wife, whatever.

I am an artless serf of Cupid.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.