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

I love connecting with readers!

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

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

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

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

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.

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.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

Especially in writing love stories, there's always the assumption that once you've said 'I do,' once you get to the point where you're married, well, the hard part is over.

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction.

Some writers may hate interacting on social media. And if you do, don't do it, because it shows. If you are uncomfortable being out in public, that shows, too, and makes the reader uncomfortable. So find the best way for you to connect with your readers and a way that you enjoy.

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

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

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.

'One With You' was the hardest book I have ever written. I rewrote it three times.

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.

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

I believe that if you work hard at a relationship, devoting time and energy to it, being willing to grow and experiment, and never take it for granted, that you can continue to feel the initial attraction and excitement indefinitely.

I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.

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

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 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.

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'm a multimillionaire.

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

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.