Books Quote by Neil Jordan Download Open image “I took two years away from making films to write a novel.” — Neil Jordan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cinema Film Novel Two Two years Writing Years
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films. — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
