Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
Romantic love is an addiction.
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.