Marina Warner Quotes

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

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

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.

Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

almost all novels are love stories.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

All the world loves a lover.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

What's important is friendship and family and love.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.

I believe in love — yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love. I went out with Katy Perry last night. She's so fun and awesome, but it's cool to see someone older believe in love too. She is all about it, and that's how I will always be. I believe in stories like, 'Oh, I met him in Starbucks.'

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.