“Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled.
“With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!”

“men i swear."
-jacky faber”

“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances”

“Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.”

“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance novel covers? The”

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

“I tried my hand at a novel around college romance, but soon figured out I was no good at it.”

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”

“Literary critics like Lionel Trilling … demand that our novels illuminate the manners and morals of prevailing society. Professor Trilling is right, because otherwise what use are they for us? But he is wrong-headed, because he does not see that the burden of proof is not on the artist but on our society. If such convenient criticism of prevalent life does not get to be written, it is likely that the prevailing society is not inspiring enough; its humanity is not great enough, it does not have enough future, to be worth the novelist’s trouble.”