Books Quote by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented…

— John Fowles

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go…

— William Golding

When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's…

— Nick Hornby

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even…

— Thornton Wilder

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels…

— Alexander Payne