Adam Schlesinger Quotes

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

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.

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

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

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.

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

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

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.

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.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

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.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.