Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• My day job is making TV shows.

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  Jobs, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

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  Book, Pride, Prejudice

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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.

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  Historical, Fiction, Stories

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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.

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  Believe, Book, Reading

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• I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

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  Vampire Hunter, Hard

  "Fictional character: Mary Todd Lincoln". "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

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  Laughing, Important, Decided

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• Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

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  Mother, Brother, Children

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• I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

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  America, Vampire, Resolve

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

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  Beautiful, Taught

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.172, Hachette UK

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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.

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  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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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.

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  Country, Suffering, Tragedy

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• We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

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  May, Hell, Deserve

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• 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.

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  Character, Views, Stories

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• If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

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  Kings, Body, Want

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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.

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  Confused, Character, Track

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• I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

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  Reading, Biographies, Horror Fans

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• I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

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  Reading, Presidential, Biographies

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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.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Long

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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.

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  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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• Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

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  Men, Faces, Knows

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.47, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Writing, Dark, Wicked

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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

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  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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• I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

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  Focus, Want, Down And

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• I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

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  Stupid, Zombie

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