John Crowley
John Crowley
John Crowley /ˈkraʊli/is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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The state has made efforts, intensive efforts as I understand it, to get people to sign up.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
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This, there was no comparison. It was probably the largest mass casualty incident anybody had responded to.
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It dialed the Yellow Cab Co. in Brockton.
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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
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Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
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Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
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With some people I'm sure that trust has been regained, and some people are still a 'Show Me' kind of thing... I think Fletcher Allen has made a great deal of progress.
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It's glorious, because the story is always moving forward through the dialogue. So I always felt on very safe ground with the script.
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We decided we wanted the hospitals to have an opportunity to digest this information (before) we would issue a press release,
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We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.