Attributes Quote by Lav Diaz

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

— Rebecca Miller

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama…

— Rachel Joyce

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

— Alistair Maclean

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer

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

— Steven Bochco

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau