Sylvia Day Quotes

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

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.

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

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

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.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I have got a good imagination.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.