“Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story."
"Every story is a love story.”

“Every love story is a potential grief story.”

“All stories are love stories.”

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

“Every great love starts with a great story…”

“Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!”

“The romance genre was all around us. There was love story pulps, and there was love story sections in the newspapers. There was love stories in the movies. Wherever you went there was love stories! That’s how we got our new material, and it suddenly struck me that that’s what we haven’t done. We haven’t done any romance stories!”

“I do love romantic movies, but at my age it doesn’t happen very often. I’ve always admired love stories—the expression of love is like white light to me. Every color of the universe is in the love story.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”