Adapted Quote by James Frain

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always…

— David Benioff

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

— Patricia Highsmith

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets…

— Quentin Tarantino

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that…

— Lionel Shriver

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

— Stella Gibbons

I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had…

— Ellen Page

I've never abandoned the novel.

— V. S. Naipaul