Hereford Brook George Quotes

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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.

Geography is destiny.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

A sense of place is very important in writing.

Everything has to do with geography.

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

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

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

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.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Africa's not a color - it's a place.

My first occupation was to map the country.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

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.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.