Annie Proulx Quotes

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

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.

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

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

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

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

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.

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

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

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

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

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

I'm not interested in hearing yet another rapper tell me why he's the best. Why not tell a story set in a specific time and place? Create some characters, add a little bit of action and you're good to go.

My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.

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

I think that the next album is specifically for sure from Cry Baby's perspective, but it's not necessarily about her family-life or her love-life, or anything like that, it's more about this place in this town. The place has different characters in there, so in every song there's gonna be different characters that appear.