Books Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

— Dave Barry

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

— George V. Higgins

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

— Simon McBurney

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do…

— David Foster Wallace

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler