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I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?