Island Setting Quotes

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.