Accustomed Quote by Manuel Puig

“Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their…

— Charbel Tadros

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside…

— Patrick Rothfuss

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds…

— Alan Tudyk

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds…

— Alan Tudyk

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

— Clifton Fadiman

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

— Noah Schnapp

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

— Guillermo del Toro