Book Quote by Michael Lewis

Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a…

— Rick Riordan

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to…

— Jodi Picoult

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the…

— Bryan Burrough

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

— David Mitchell

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

— Allison Pearson

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know…

— Irving Thalberg

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

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