Quotes About Setting

I'm a big believer in respecting the fans. How do I make a science-fiction or fantasy setting relatable? How do you make the characters real?

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

I like to drink to suit my location.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.

sky dribbled just enough to make the windshield wipers squeal at the slowest setting.

When you wish to hatch a moderate number of ducklings, natural incubation is often the most practical. A good setting hen is a master at supplying the precise temperature and instinctively knows just how often eggs need to be turned. She may also serve as a ready-made brooder, eliminating the need to supply an artificial source of heat.

well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents

A beautiful stone is only a beautiful stone. It doesn't lead you anywhere. It doesn't mean anything, it has no form or significance until is has its setting. And the setting has to have a beautiful jewel to be worthy of it.

I have always been rather good at what is called, I believe, creating an atmosphere.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Rules of responsible drug use, he thought. Know your substance before you start. Know your dose. Safe, comfortable setting. He shook his head. They'd struck out on all three of those.

having a varied, evolving setting (even though it only evolves in that "middle layer" of NPCs/creatures/economy) encourages roleplay, encourages exploration, encourages alternate styles of achievement

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Mr. Trump is a chief executive in the private setting of a very complex business.

I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog.

Even when I write fiction, which I don't do too often, the fictional characters are familiar to me, like relatives I might have had in another life, and the setting is a place I know or have known. If I feel acquainted with the people and the landscape, I can enter this world and imagine what happens there and write it down. For me that world will always be some form of home.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.