#setting

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. ↗

— Seth Green

#funny #hysterically #real #sad #same

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#changed #falling #falling in love #instrument #like

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#close #danger #ice #sea #setting

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#everybody #formed #forward #intellectual #know

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#idleness #men #sin #some #some men

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#because #find #guess #having #i