Romance Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”

— Susan Issacs

“I don’t expect my one to walk from the pages of one of my romance novels. Whoever this man is, when he comes for…

— Amie Knight

“Writing is like making love. Connecting with another person's mind is the deepest form of penetration.”

— Shawn Stern

“Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.”

— Nathan Hill, The Nix

You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the temporal mediocre…

— George Saunders

“Isn’t that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and…

— Rachel Kushner

“Our favorite stories can be like lovers. Make sense to me, we ask them. Make sense of me. Here, fix these hurting parts. And…

— Melissa Febos

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

“I write for myself first and foremost, but I hope that others will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.”

— Shannon DuBey

“The intimacy we share is something truly special, a bond that goes far beyond mere physical attraction or temporary connections. It's the kind of…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part…

— Ally Condie

“There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your heart, your…

— Elizabeth Ayres