Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Reading, Presidential, Biographies

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• If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

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  Fall, Writing, Tricks

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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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• 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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• 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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• My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.

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  Jobs, Fun, Dark

  "Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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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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• 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 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.

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  Character, Cutting, Interesting

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• 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.

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  Library, Stories, Literature

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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.

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  Years, Guy, Seven Days

  "Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

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  Book, Character, Zombie

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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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• 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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• All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

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  Christian, Husband, Finals

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.114, Chronicle Books

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• America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

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  America, Mississippi, Laughed

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• But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

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  Kings, Men, Sheep

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?

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  Beautiful, Eye, Simple

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• It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

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  Grief, Two, Evil

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• The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

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  Men, Eagles, Giving

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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.

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  Evil, Embrace, Rejects

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• Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

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  Old Friends, Alive, Said

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• And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

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  Taken, Cat, Mice

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• My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

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  War, Men, Blood

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