Jude Deveraux
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.Collection: Architecture
I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.
My soul will find yours.Collection: Romantic Love
Love can make even nice people do awful things.Collection: Love
Time has no meaning, Love will endure.Collection: Patience
To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.Collection: Able
We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.Collection: Forever
On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.Collection: Sacrifice
What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.Collection: Wedding
I've come to realize that life is what you make it.Collection: Realizing
There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It's how get there that's the fun.Collection: Falling In Love
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.Collection: Writing
Waiting for Prince Charming?" "Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella." "Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.Collection: Queens
It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.Collection: Flattering
What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die.Collection: Falling In Love
I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.Collection: Queens
There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.Collection: Men
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.Collection: Waiting
I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.Collection: Trying
It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?Collection: Heart
I'm an American and I want instant gratification.Collection: Want
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.Collection: Sexy
Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you. ~Nicholas StaffordCollection: Remember You
I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.Collection: Thinking
Will you give me another chance?” Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. “No,” she said, “although I thank you very much for the offer.Collection: Giving
I like you angry better than weepy.Collection: I Like You
What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?Collection: Jobs
Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?Collection: Proud
There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It’s how get there that’s the fun.Collection: Fun
I’m rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she’d be much more fun.Collection: Fun