Sylvia Day Quotes

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

I love 'Fifty Shades' and 'Twilight' both.

I think women love to read love stories.

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

I was never a 'Mills and Boon' kind of a person.

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.