Barking dogs Quote by Jonathan Lethem

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

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

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell

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

— Steven Bochco

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in…

— Laura Esquivel

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not…

— Aamir Khan

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I…

— Paulo Coelho

Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be…

— Sebastian Faulks

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

“...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever…

— Paulo Coelho

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,…

— Dorothea Benton Frank