Book Quote by Chinua Achebe

“Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their…

— Charbel Tadros

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain…

— Graeme Base

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is…

— Annabelle Selldorf

It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book.

— Brad Bird

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order…

— Steven Hall

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a…

— Michael Imperioli

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience…

— Sarah Ruhl

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it…

— Philip Roth

It is a challenging task to adapt a book to screen presentation and you will not be able to satisfy those who read the…

— Vetrimaaran

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are…

— Milos Forman