Book Quote by Alexander Kluge

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

— Peter Morgan

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

— Sarah Dunn

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

— Steven Bochco

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But…

— Augusten Burroughs

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you…

— John Sayles

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are…

— Joe Meno

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

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener