Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

- Jeffery Deaver

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

- Lisa Randall

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

- Meghan Daum

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

- Miriam Toews

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

- Marcel Carne

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

- Noam Chomsky

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

- N. K. Jemisin

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

- Patricia Polacco

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

- Raymond Arroyo

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

- Susan Minot

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

- Timothy Noah

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

- Vikram Seth