Best novel Quote by Nicholas Sparks

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

— Christopher Hampton

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

— Salman Rushdie

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

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

I don't think I could make a good film, but I could definitely score a good film.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films!…

— Christopher Hampton

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great.…

— Fred Schepisi

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of…

— William Boyd

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro