Books Quote by Alice Hoffman

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

— Rebecca Miller

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in…

— Justin Cronin

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I…

— Miranda July

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

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art,"…

— William Boyd

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

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky