Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel,… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
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