Character Quote by Madeline Hunter

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

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

— Sylvia Day

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

“A love story is not the same as a romance novel. A romance novel is the story of two people falling in love against…

— Tiffany Reisz

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish…

— Veronica Roth

Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love

— Donell Jones

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

— Jeffery Deaver

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that…

— Ruth Glick

Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and…

— Elizabeth Sims

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no…

— Anthony Trollope

Romance is the poetry of literature.

— Suzanne Curchod