Book Quote by Claire Tomalin

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five…

— Matt Haig

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

— William Peter Blatty

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell…

— Bernhard Schlink

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it…

— Kirk Douglas

If you have sold the film rights to somebody, take your money and leave. If the producers need you, they will call you. But…

— Ravi Subramanian

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into…

— Iain Banks

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things,…

— Warren Ellis

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to…

— Molly Bloom

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture…

— Michael Connelly

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a…

— Ruth Ozeki

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman