Sylvia Day Quotes

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as 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.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

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.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.