79 Quotes About Setting
- Author Neil Gaiman
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is baked can influence the shape of your bread... Just take it as simple as that!
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ("Back garden of a dream")
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- Author Carmen Maria Machado
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Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view.
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- Author T.A. Barron
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Turning to the open window above my head, I saw the full moon, glowing as bright as a pot of molten silver. Moonlight poured through the window, and through the gaps in the thatched roof, painting the interior of the hut with its gleaming brush. For a moment, the moonlight nearly disguised the poverty of the room, covering the earthen floor with a sheath of silver, the rough clay walls with sparkles of light, and the still-sleeping form in the corner with the glow of an angel.
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- Author Adi Alsaid
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The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.
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- Author John Gardner
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He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot...
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- Author Futty-fuze
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Do not be an average person, average is not normal, average is lazy. set goals, dream more, break the rules and become a better person you want be. BE HUMBLE AND KIND
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- Author R.J. Lawrence
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The sun had set, but a faint pastel haze lingered in the mid-summer sky.
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