Actually Quote by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was…

— Gene Hackman

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

— Rita Mae Brown

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

— Wilbur Smith

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

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 wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney