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All Quotes by author - Sarah MacLean
" Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale. "
Summer
Sun
Will
" 'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners. "
Book
Rules
Name
" As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies... well... babies are complicated. "
You
Falling In Love
People
" As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer. "
Always
Me
Find
" As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. "
Drama
Long
Weather
" At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. "
Love
People
Perfect
" Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them? "
Opinion
Mistake
Relationships
" By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf. "
Romance
Parents
Had
" Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance. "
Romance
Me
Taught
" Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches. "
Uniqueness
Forget
Story
" Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male. "
Find
Still
Always
" For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. "
Writing
Character
Kind
" Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever. "
Goodness
Book
World
" Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world. "
World
Hero
Moment
" If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic. "
Your
Think
You
" I'm not entirely sure why I write. "
I Write
Write
Why
" I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers. "
Special
Award
Because
" In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love. "
Surprise
Future
Love
" I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself. "
Myself
Fool
Had
" In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines. "
Love Is
Real
Inspire
" In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason. "
Real Life
Say
Boy
" In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books. "
Grandchildren
Baby
Fair
" I think back on that day when 16-year-old me scribbled on some silly piece of paper for some long-forgotten high school career-day project that my dream job was 'romance novelist.' "
Job
Day
School
" I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age Like Fine Wine.' "
Agree
Wine
Like
" I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from. "
Style
Book
Morning
" 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. "
Golden
Women
Others
" No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and reveal themselves to their heroines - the only women strong enough to match them. "
Strong
Women
Moment
" 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. "
Love
History
Future
" Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership. "
Love
Great
Powerful
" One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored? "
Get
Bored
Stories
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