Quotes About Setting

A witch should not fear her own death. It is just the setting of a sun and a promise of the darkness that is our true home.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

I remember it was a nativity type setting. An exit light shining down. There were three truck drivers there. One guy was carrying butter, one guy had frankfurters, and the other guy was a retired baseball scout who told my folks that I probably had a chance to play somewhere down the line.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Isn't the ambience growing on you?" "If it does, I'll scrape it off.

In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

And the Lazy Parrot Inn was the perfect setting in which to read a book about "one man's journey to redemption." It had been hard to tell from the photos on the website exactly what the hotel was going to be like. It had certainly looked nice (especially since I wasn't paying for it), but people and places almost always look better online than they do in real life.

Prunesquallor was in his study.

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

In Baltimore, I was walking with a friend who was playing at a pub he kept referring to as the Horse. But when I saw the sign 'The Horse You Came In On' - I thought, 'My God.' I had no intention of ever setting a Jury novel in the U.S., but when I saw that, I thought, 'That's it.' The names are very important.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

A good reader pays attention to everything. The surface of the prose. The structure of the book. The tense. The point of view. Perhaps to those even before the characters. Then comes the setting. The story can often come last.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.