Books Quote by Nicholas Sparks

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have…

— Bill Watterson

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

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

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids,…

— Don Winslow

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell