Books Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

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

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Steven Bochco

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a…

— Deborah Moggach

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside…

— Ruth Jones

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on…

— Kazuo Ishiguro