Top 33 Sylvia Day Quotes

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

Publishers should use the paperback side to leverage the ebook side.

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

I have had unattractive heroes – broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums.

I believe that if you work hard at a relationship, devoting time and energy to it, being willing to grow and experiment, and never take it for granted, that you can continue to feel the initial attraction and excitement indefinitely.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

I’ve found that writers who don’t read really can’t write.

I spend a lot of time on social media, I’m on Facebook every day; I’m on Twitter every day.

The ’50 Shades’ series is a Cinderella story, where the characters seemingly have no flaws. The ‘Crossfire’ series is very different in that these two characters are almost mirror images of each other.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

I have things I watch in my downtime – I love ‘Scandal.’ I don’t write political romance, so there’s not a direct relation there. But it’s something I do just to turn off the brain for a little bit, and just to relax and recharge.

‘One With You’ was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

As a writer, it’s disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed – these are my pre-order, must-have authors.

I’m a multimillionaire.

The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.

The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the same taste as you. I think I’ve done that, and that’s lucky.

It’s not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thoughts about my books. I’ve also heard from a number of female readers who were introduced to my works by men in their lives.

I love connecting with readers!

I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, ‘I want to go back and start all over again!’ That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don’t expect to walk down the street and hear, ‘Oh my God, there’s Sylvia Day.’ You prefer to be anonymous.

Especially in writing love stories, there’s always the assumption that once you’ve said ‘I do,’ once you get to the point where you’re married, well, the hard part is over.

The ‘Crossfire’ demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture… it doesn’t matter.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I’ve never been good with either.

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

It’s fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life – but that part is fun.

Writing the ‘Crossfire’ series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can’t figure out what a writer’s theme is, look at the books you are attracted to.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.