My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. Votes: 2
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. Votes: 2
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight. Votes: 2
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Votes: 2
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told. Votes: 2
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. Votes: 2
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. Votes: 2
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story. Votes: 2
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens. Votes: 2
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. Votes: 2
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting. Votes: 2
To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in. Votes: 2
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep. Votes: 2
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it. Votes: 2
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested. Votes: 2
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. Votes: 2
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her. Votes: 2
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.' Votes: 2
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. Votes: 2
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. Votes: 2
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they? Votes: 0
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. Votes: 0
Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home. Votes: 0
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Votes: 4 Tony Robbins
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Votes: 5 Robert McKee