Authors Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

Film industry people don't read books.

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

— Debra Granik

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger…

— Dani Shapiro

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done…

— Diana Gabaldon

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are…

— Ashwin Sanghi