Orson Scott Card Quotes

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.

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

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

My favorite movie is 'Closer' and 'Love Story.'

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

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

There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.

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

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

Every book should have a romance.

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

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

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

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.