Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you go… - Stef Penney
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you go…
- Stef Penney
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. - Stef Penney
Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. - Stef Penney
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. - Stef Penney
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them. - Stef Penney
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. - Stef Penney
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
I don't use real people for inspiration. - Stef Penney
I don't use real people for inspiration.
Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I f… - Stef Penney
Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I f…
...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not. - Stef Penney
...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.
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