Rachel Gibson Quotes

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

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.

I like romance in films. I like love in films.

I don't write romance novels.

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

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

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.

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

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

I like reading romantic novels.

I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

I think women love to read love stories.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

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

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero.

I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.