“- Meghan: What does a post-modern romantic writer do all day?
- Gordon: Find beauty and praise it.
- Meghan: That's like the opposite of what I do.”
Jan Struther - Meghan
James Marsden - Gordon

“- Elaine Mozell: Don't ever think that you can get their attention.
- Young Joan: Whose?
- Elaine Mozell: The men. Who write the reviews. Who run the publishing houses. Who edit the magazines. The ones who decide who gets to be taken seriously, who gets to be put up on a pedestal for the rest of their lives.”
Elizabeth McGovern - Elaine Mozell
Annie Starke - Young Joan

“You're like the poster boy for the romantically challenged!”
GQ - Eric

“Why can't I find a guy who isn't romantically retarded?”
Katharine Towne - Chloe

“The big strong brave men, that we've all been reading about in novels and watching in movies since we've been nine-years-old, that's a fallacy. They don't exist. Men are afraid. Men are weak.”
Katherine Heigl - Abby