Books Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cinema Failed Films How Made Most Stories Tell Writers Writing
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films. — Jitendra Kumar Copy Share Image
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success. — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.'… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
