Frank Yerby Quotes

Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.

I think I ate at the John Hancock building - I loved the view.

No, but you can see it from here.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

I went to the Heidelburg Castle, a 1200-year-old castle, looked around. It was pretty awesome, but you know, they've got a coffee shop in there, and they have some sections closed off. I wanted to see the part where they tortured people, but it was cool, though.

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

I would never suggest that the geography or visual environment of the film is more important than what's going on with the people, but it's a major factor in getting the right tone. Certainly, it influences the actors tremendously.

New Haven is really cool.

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

For all my films, location plays an important role because I like to give the authentic look of the place. And for that, one must go there and shoot at the right spots.

It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.