Melissa Marr Quotes

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

When you first go out there, and you're speaking to people who don't really have any idea about the romance industry at all... they're like, 'Romance? Oh wow, okay, I didn't know people even paid attention to romance.'

I don't write romance novels.

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.