A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
“He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
“...I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
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