Mark Frost Quotes

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

There is a certain joy in telling a story, and it gives me great pleasure to be a part of the process from scratch and say it the way I want to.

I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they see fit.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

It's all about letting the story take over.

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

With the success of 'Spiderwick,' it's allowed me to be able to have the freedom to really be able to tell the stories that I really wanted to tell, that I've always wanted to tell.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.