Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes

Kaui Hart Hemmings
American Writer
Day Me People Work Writing You
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Work Focus Long Live Think Setting Else Characters About Long Shot Putting Town Like Overall Tight Island Makes Narrow Close-Up Different Place Which Anywhere Anywhere Else Then Shot Shots Sweep View Wide
When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Character Me Writing Treat Remember Three Setting Alive Dimensions Vividly Give Come Make Were Encouraged Off Jump Often Place Across Page Teachers Who Novel Compared
I wasn't creative enough to imagine my first novel becoming a film directed by Alexander Payne. Nor did I consider the possibility of seeing Hollywood stars moving through my personal version of Hanalei town: going to Tahiti Nui, rehearsing a scene in front of my cousin's cottages, driving the snaky roads. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Creative First Stars Alexander Enough Consider Possibility Seeing Directed Scene Through Driving Roads Town Becoming Cousin Nor Version Did Personal Front Going Moving Hollywood Rehearsing Novel Film Imagine
Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M. Kaui Hart Hemmings
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I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Life Time You Experience Live Life Try Live Think About Something Write Writer Block Just Where Things Need
After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Day Every Day Writing School College Every Gave Took Colorado Knew Know Grad Grad School Snowboarding Just Moved Want Wanted After Shot Applied
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Cinema Beauty Some Some Things Just Novels Things
I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Bit Outsider Because Felt Always Up Grew Little Little Bit
I like to work out every day, so that takes up some time. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Work Time Day Every Day Every Out Some Takes Like Up Work Out
I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Experience Reality Speak Depend More Tourism Tourists Like Islands Spots Go Want Might
People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Work People Husband Before Hawaiian He Wisconsin Surfing Go His Shirt Goes Afterwards Paddling
Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Change Fight People Grace Try Plunge Most How Tragedy Move Interested Then Eventually Brings
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Truth Best Truth Is About Could Writer Being Where Fiction Fiction Writer Away Thing Inconvenient
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Father Politician Our Our Father Kids Members Out Fred Threaten Entire Adult Soon House Call Knows Island Governor Get Controversial Jail Us Grocery Who Gang Now Night
With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it. Kaui Hart Hemmings
You Matter Kind Some Point Announce Families Want Inherit Belong
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof. Kaui Hart Hemmings
You Recognition Proof Celebration Child Formal Crave Ceremony
For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Birthday Adopted Asked
I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Loved
What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow! Kaui Hart Hemmings
Great Teen About Highbrow Mixed Up Fiction
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Good Me Writing Never Freely Like Frequently Been Blogging Closer Little Therapy
I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not because I'm above it or anything, but I'd be mortified if someone caught me looking for my own book. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Me Book Looking Own Gone Back Someone Above My Own Never Mortified Because Caught Front Store After Anything
I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Day Character People Writing Action Thinking Plot Details Something Having More Feel Like Revealing Goal Than Sitting Want Them Themselves Much Forward Actually Things Dragging
One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Day Home Daughter Extra Related Herself Background One Day Wearing Hawaiian Looked She Call Equally Surf George His George Clooney Shirt Clooney Place Board Sand Shorts Suddenly Playing Filming
Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney. Kaui Hart Hemmings
School Dinner Nothing Changed Took Kids Cleaned Had House Wrote George George Clooney Clooney Much Descendants Even Filmmaking
Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something. Kaui Hart Hemmings
Me Class Sometimes Made Other Added Laugh Would Spin Something Could Student Put Wished Learn Lectures Up Times Just Loved Flavor Who Things Shut Shut Up Disruptive

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