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Every book should have a romance.

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.

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.

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

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

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

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.