Victoria Aveyard Quotes

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

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

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

It's important to have an imagination.