I'm no romantic surfing California boy. I like reading writing philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful but his work itself is rather drab.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was not just about love but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth of loyalty sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

I am not an adolescent nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Forget romantic fiction a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping have sex or sleep.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side he was kind of a rather stiff disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.