Being honest Quote by Frida Farrell

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story…

— Frida Farrell

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market.…

— Hilary Mantel

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

— Ann Patchett

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you…

— John Sayles

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be…

— Tess Gerritsen

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

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

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Dustin Hoffman

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