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

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.