Harry Lloyd Quotes

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.