I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

I encourage interoffice romance.

I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

I cannot do the boy-girl romance, villains etc.; I cannot relish such cinema and I cannot make it.

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I like romanticizing romance.

We're always up for a bit of romance on ice.

I totally believe in romance and love and all that.

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?