Sylvia Day Quotes

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.