Quotes About Setting

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of that right.

Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.

Sonya gave him a sly smile. "And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls." "Rose never would have done anything like that," he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was the hint of a smile there. "Well, at least not in such a public setting.

Unacceptable," said Dimitri. He used to be a combat instructor, and I could understand why. "She's here on a mission. What she did was reckless and irresponsible." Sonya gave him a sly smile. "And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless girls." "Rose never would have done anything like that," he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. "Well, at least not in such a public setting.

The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

The sun thought that Jerusalem was a sea and set in her: a terrible mistake.

Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.

I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

I guess it seemed like a natural thing to set 'AvP' in the world of the Alien, rather than the world of the Predator. I always liked the idea of it being on earth.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.

I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be how could it be cooler?

Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

What my day is like depends on where I am.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

I shook my head. Setting fires was apparently a new sign of affection. Mead, Richelle (2007-08-16). Vampire Academy (p. 201). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Psychedelics exert their effects by a complex blending of three factors: set, setting, and drug.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.