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New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I'm a very romantic person.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.