Book Quote by Augusten Burroughs

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just…

— Lisa See

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are…

— Don Winslow

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an…

— Alice Hoffman

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

— J. Michael Straczynski

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can…

— Katherine Paterson

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

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

— Steven Bochco