Books Quote by Oscar Hijuelos Download Open image “A great novel is worth one thousand films.” — Oscar Hijuelos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cinema Film Great novels Novel Thousand Writing
Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“Glorious life ending. There must have been a moment when his son had gasped for air, the last time, as Jesus must. But as… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work. — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.” — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews. — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C,… — Oscar Hijuelos 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
