Ambiguity Quote by David Mitchell

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection…

— Nicholas Sparks

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have…

— Bill Watterson

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just…

— Lisa See

I believe writing is where it all begins; you can not make a film look different, you have to write it differently.

— Rakshit Shetty

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

— Paul Greengrass

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of…

— William Boyd

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

— Bong Joon-ho

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

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward