Quotes from Sylvia Day

Has that line ever worked for anyone?" "I'm not feeding you lines. I mean every word." … "Day One of my life was the day I met you." "Okay, that's a winner. You can put it in.

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

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

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.

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

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

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

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

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.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

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

Gratitude goes a long way.

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

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.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

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

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.

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

Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.

I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.

I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were

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.