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

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

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

" For the most part, romance is written in third person, and it's written in multiple points of view, so you're in the hero's head, and you're in the heroine's head. I've always said that I'm more of a narrator than a creator. "

" My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant. "

" The '50 Shades' series is a Cinderella story, where the characters seemingly have no flaws. The 'Crossfire' series is very different in that these two characters are almost mirror images of each other. "

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

" It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun. "

" 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. "

" Living is a constant source of inspiration. "

" 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. "

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

" I've found that writers who don't read really can't write. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence. "

" You really couldn't do a PG version of 'Crossfire!' It just wouldn't work. "

" I love connecting with readers! "

" I'm a multimillionaire. "

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

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

" I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving. "

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

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

" I have had unattractive heroes - broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums. "

" I'm a big fan of IMAX/3-D films; I love that whole experience. "

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

" There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that it's just working itself out. You have to let it do it. "

" It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thoughts about my books. I've also heard from a number of female readers who were introduced to my works by men in their lives. "

" The No. 1 thing is to write the book that you love and then hope that it finds an audience with the same taste as you. I think I've done that, and that's lucky. "

" I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, 'I want to go back and start all over again!' That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book. "