Books Quote by Paul Auster

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

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

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Arthur Miller

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

— Richard Russo

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in…

— Walter Kirn

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

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the…

— Howard Gordon

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro