Edmund White Quotes

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

Variety is the spice of love.

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me.

Timing is everything with relationships.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.