Words matter. These are the best Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
I understand exactly what I am.
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that’s not an exaggeration.
I’ve always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they’re this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There’s really no trick to it.
I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
It was this weird confrontation of these two delicious flavors that got me consciously or subconsciously combining Lincoln and vampires as an observational in-joke with myself.
‘Pride and Prejudice’ – perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book – is engrained in our literary consciousness.
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
I’m a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I’m never going to win the National Book Award.
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I don’t know if I want to do that anymore.
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen’s original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what’s going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that’s the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
