Landscape Quotes - Page 38

• Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.

  Janet Fitch

  Character, Emotional, Looks

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• What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

  Athol Fugard

  Cancer, Different, Stories

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• The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

  John Cage

  Long Ago, Hearing, Window

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.122, Wesleyan University Press

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• A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.

  Blaise Pascal

  Names, House, Tree

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• In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Soul, Individual

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• The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Eye, Mean

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• Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

  Seth Shostak

  Asteroids, Arena, Triumph

  "Heroic Exploration: Well and Truly Dead?" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.

  Danny Fox

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Photographer, Wells, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Office, Balls

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Growing Up, Book, Native American

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Ocean, Eye

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• Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their neighbors and to their coworkers, and talking about this pledge, that would change the political and social landscape so much more than if 5,000 people got arrested for protesting a pipeline.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Talking, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

  Karen Russell

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Moving, Narrative, Lyrical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.

  Astra Taylor

  Media, Political, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).

  Astra Taylor

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Los Angeles is more hospitable to writers [Than NY]. It's less claustrophobic. It feels more unpredictable and dangerous, and the landscape is less structured. You see coyotes lurking all over the place. It just feels wilder and more dangerous.

  Nick Antosca

  Coyotes, Los Angeles, Dangerous

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

  Anna Journey

  Peculiar, Way, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

  John Dufresne

  Character, Childhood, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

  Wendy Starland

  Bored, People, Musical

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• Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

  Sarah Palin

  Political, Machines, Attacking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Past, Car

  Source: therumpus.net

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