Sarah Zettel Quotes
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.
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Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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It's not like there are a lot of horror shows on television. There are a few.
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It is better to do too much than to do too little.
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The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
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No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire.
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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
