417 Quotes by Sylvia Day

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

The 'Blacklist' duology is a project I am very passionate about, and when the St. Martin's Press team approached me, I was captivated with their presentation.

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.

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

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

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.

Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk about a book that sells maybe 100,000 copies, that happens to be very literary, whereas something like 'Crossfire' will sell 13 million copies in a single language and hardly get any mentions at all.

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.

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