Gregory Allen Howard Born : 1962 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Gregory Allen Howard Home is a complex and resonant idea. Gregory Allen Howard complexeshomeideas I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities. Gregory Allen Howard literatureroomsideas I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience. Gregory Allen Howard gameswritingchildren I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life. Gregory Allen Howard returntryingway One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form. Gregory Allen Howard curiousformmight Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered. Gregory Allen Howard writingorderthinking I wanted to turn Harriet Tubman's life, which I'd studied in college, into an action-adventure movie. The climate in Hollywood, however, was very different back then, i was told how one studio head said in a meeting,' This script is fantastic. Let's get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.'. Gregory Allen Howard entertainment Harriet was bigger than life. Harriet freeing slaves had a multiplying effect... Harriet showed them how powerful they could become. Gregory Allen Howard entertainment
