“Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.”
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“Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
“We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.”
“My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.”
“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”
“I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.”
“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”
“The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”
“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.”
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”
“Romance is everything.”
“The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
“I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.”
“I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.”
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.”
“There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.”
“I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.”
“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
“I love being one half of a romantic couple.”