Oblique Quote by Jeff Giles Download Open image “Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.” — Jeff Giles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oblique Scott Stuff Unsettling Weird
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it. — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else. — Tana French Copy Share Image
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component: perhaps the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“there’s nothing more frightening than a new and foreign expression on a loved one’s face, it’s like listening to a piece of comforting music… — Ofir Touche Gafla Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing? — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other.… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels,… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes… — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
