Susanna Kearsley Quotes

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

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

I like reading romantic novels.

I don't write romance novels.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

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.

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

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.

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

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

'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.

I think women love to read love stories.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

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

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

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.