Mark Frost Professions : Novelist Born : November 25, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Mark Frost The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. Mark Frost architecture three time reality I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones. Mark Frost new lunch money believe I don't know if I'll have a better friend than Bill Paxton. Mark Frost than friend better know In the fun house of today's metastisizing sports-entertainment megaplex, when every day brings another story revealing how these 'heroes' we create are fashioned from base clay, a pause might be in order to reflect on athletes who actually embodied the qualities we think we admire in the too-easily deified. Mark Frost day think fun today I went to high school in Minnesota. Mark Frost high minnesota high-school school There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing. Mark Frost place you imagine stranger My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club champion. Whenever I was visiting them, I got a double barrel of golf lore. I guess it was always in my blood. Mark Frost loved game great champion The sport was right in the center of these changing social dynamics. It was a game invented by blue-collar people in Scotland but adopted by the elite in England and America. All of those conflicts were coming into the open. I was amazed to find out how much was played out in golf as well. Mark Frost game golf america people People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.' Mark Frost you family night people True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people. Mark Frost deep you violence people I don't think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice. Mark Frost bottle think you lightning There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb. Mark Frost too journalism information television I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life. Mark Frost always spiritual life religion I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently. Mark Frost things look up me I'm a realist about how the networks work. Mark Frost about how realist work Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors