Book Quote by Clive Barker Download Open image “Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.” — Clive Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Masturbation Movie Writing Writing a book
The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. — Jonathan Nolan 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
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 Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together. Writing a… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a… — Clive Barker 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
