“Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.” MenMayHas BeensStoriesNightFatherMemoriesAttentionDetailsTalesSwearListeners Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?” StoriesLife IsSongMeaningless Book:Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.” ThinkingBelieveBookEnoughStoriesReadingLostGoalPridePrejudiceAbsurdBelovedClassicZombieDisbeliefUprising Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.” IfsCharacterStoriesInterestLosesAudienceTrackConfused Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.” LittlesStoriesLiteratureNovelTerribleLibraryCongressDecadesAwfulShort StoryAbandonedScreenplaysManuscripts Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“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.” IfsCharacterStoriesChallengesInterestingCuttingImagineReaderSettingSettingsNovelistsLoadVividIntriguingScreenwriters Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“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.” WantPersonsCharacterStoriesUseFormEasySidesViewsNovelDependsPoint Of ViewDramaticThemeStrongest Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
“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.” IfsKnowsWorldWantStoriesFictionFantasyHorrorScience FictionHistoricalLitGimmicks Author:Seth Grahame-Smith
