Attention Quote by Manuel Puig

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the…

— Leigh Whannell

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

“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

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers.…

— Gary Ross

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing…

— Daniel Pennac

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and…

— Alan Tudyk

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

— Casey Affleck

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are…

— Milos Forman

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's…

— Jonathan Mostow

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro