Book Quote by Paul Auster

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what…

— James Patterson

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great…

— Paul Auster

A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter…

— Alexander Payne

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn