Before Quote by Mark Millar

Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are…

— Frederick Busch

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

— Mark Millar

As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've loved from…

— Markus Zusak

I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into…

— Danielle Dutton

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and…

— Louise Penny

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

— George R. R. Martin

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and…

— John le Carre

I'm always worried about how fans of the books will react, but we have kept true to a lot of the books. Obviously there…

— Dominic Sherwood

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture…

— Michael Connelly

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock,…

— Chuck Palahniuk