Tabitha King Quotes

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

A sense of place is very important in writing.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

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.

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

I would never suggest that the geography or visual environment of the film is more important than what's going on with the people, but it's a major factor in getting the right tone. Certainly, it influences the actors tremendously.

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

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.

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

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.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

History is not intelligible without geography.

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.

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

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.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

For all my films, location plays an important role because I like to give the authentic look of the place. And for that, one must go there and shoot at the right spots.

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

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.