Lisa Jewell Quotes

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.