Books Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama…

— Rachel Joyce

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

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

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my…

— Joy Fielding

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara…

— Virginia Henley

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters;…

— Penelope Lively

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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