Chris Pavone Quotes

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

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

A sense of place is very important in writing.

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

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

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind of idea generator that you didn't need to dissect and open up. And that's absolutely fascinating and an engaging way to tell a story.

The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out of the American landscape, without having to commit myself to a full-length novel. I find a lot of novels out there very boring.