Again Quote by Sara Sheridan

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

— Claire Tomalin

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it took four…

— Justin Cartwright

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not…

— Jonathan Raymond

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track.…

— Mason Currey

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but…

— Yossi Ghinsberg