Quotes About Setting

sixth birthday?" asked Cicero. "He told me over dinner the other night: 'More people worship a rising than a setting sun.

MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow

Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

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

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or how, he is not real.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.

What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At the bar stood ole Verne Mackenzie, And his eyes was bloodshot red

do to make my setting the most fertile ground in the world for the growth of talent?