In her book Talking About Detective Fiction, P.D. James begins a chapter discussing setting, viewpoint and people with the following comments:

Reading any work of fiction is a symbiotic act.  We the readers contribute our imagination to that of the writer, willingly entering his world, participating in the lives of its people and forming from the ( Read more... )

So, there I was, doing some research for a script I'm working on.  The script is set in Alaska, and there are details that pop up that I have to double check.  Actually, it's kind of fun.

But in the process, this evening, I ran across this terrific quotation.  I haven't researched the author of it, so I don't know where it came from, what he was ( Read more... )

 It all started with me making sure a friend had a quotation right.  Not that I doubted her (she's usually meticulous about such things), but after all those years with Jeopardy!, the inclination is not to trust without verification.

At our screenwriters group last Saturday, in a discussion about the difficulty of finding really good scripts (one of ( Read more... )