The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
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?
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.