Books Quote by Isabel Colegate

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with…

— James Buchan

“The work of love is in building a shared story, and in letting the differences in perception rest easily aside one another.”

— Melissa Febos

“For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life:…

— Esther Perel

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems…

— Mona Simpson

“Some love stories remains incomplete and then we complete them by giving a form of novel”

— Pulkit Gupta

I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual…

— Alain de Botton

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you…

— Agnes Varda

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something…

— Kristin Hannah

“We all saw it as a love story. Not just a love story, but those two people who do love each other - a…

— Anonymous

“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times…

— Edna O'Brien

“Decade's reading had justified his guess that men and women perceive love identically save for, say, five percent. Reading books by men and women…

— Annie Dillard