Fannie Flagg Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

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.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

I aspire to be a part of a good story, because then, the actor will automatically shine through.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

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?

It was always about the story rather than the character.

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

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

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

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

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.

Not only a great game, 'Uncharted 2' raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part of the overall story rather than a way to move from plot point to plot point.