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The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married. (Seth Grahame-Smith)
Some people say "if we split up, we can cover more ground"-with blood. View quote
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The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die. View quote
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I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. View quote
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The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. View quote
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. View quote
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Elizabeth: "Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "They belong to you, Miss Bennett. View quote
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What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things. View quote
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Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country. View quote
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I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. View quote
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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. (Seth Grahame-Smith)
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it. View quote
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My day job is making TV shows. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus. View quote
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'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (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. View quote
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If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story. View quote
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Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog. View quote
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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. View quote
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