Books Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to…

— Corey Taylor

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and…

— Quentin Tarantino

The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have…

— Emilia Fox

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in…

— Walter Kirn

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But…

— Robert Cormier

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do…

— Julie Andrews