Across Quote by Bing Gordon

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into…

— Julian Fellowes

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

Different stories are suited for different mediums.

— Celine Song

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately…

— J. M. Coetzee

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

— Diana Gabaldon

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

— Rumaan Alam

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

— Demian Bichir

Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing…

— Stewart O'Nan

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

— Jason Blum

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn…

— Thomas Steinbeck