In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

A realist in Venice would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

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.