Pastoral Resources

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

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

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.