Description & Setting Quotes

“Writing that is only about a time is not literature, it is history. If it is only about a place, it is geography. Literature is about neither; it is about people and all of the wide range of joys and troubles that people tumble into.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“The memory of odors is very rich. Now”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“Writing that is only about a time is not literature, it is history.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“Once you've sharpened your observation skills and taken notes about what you've seen, you need to create the little world in your mind where your story will take place. Because if it doesn't exist there, it won't stand a chance of existing in your reader's mind.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction

“Everybody needs a pat on the back occasionally, even if it is self-inflicted.”
― Ron Rozelle, Description & Setting - Write Great Fiction