Quote by Amalie Silver

“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Again, I know that story is suspect in the high precincts of American fiction, but only because it brings entertainment and pleasure, the same…

— Pat Conroy

“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”

— Clementine Holzinger

“In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Just because the book has sex in it doesn’t mean women are only reading it for the sexy bits.”

— Jenny Trout

“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”

— Lexi Blake

“. . . the men expressed the shock of reading something geared exclusively to the feminine. It stunned them with an awareness of what…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but…

— Marge Piercy

“Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.”

— Manil Suri

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken