Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

I was hired as a penciler.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.