Sylvia Day Quotes

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

I follow only one rule in my writing, and that is to be interesting. If the story is interesting to you, the writer, then it will probably be interesting to somebody else.

I love great writing.

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the reader has a good reading experience. I also try to write on subjects that nobody has dealt with before to make my works different from other page turners.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

The goal is to write a story that you're proud of and hope the fans like it as well.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that there are people out there reading your work, people who may be deeply affected by what you do, that you are writing not just for yourself, but for them.

I write the best book that I can write each time.

Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?