Book Quote by Sarah Waters

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think,…

— Peter Shaffer

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I…

— Jeff Britting

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

— Kenneth Tynan

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience…

— Alan Lightman

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because…

— Stephen King

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience…

— Sarah Ruhl

When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like…

— Jude Law

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

— Geraldine McEwan

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite…

— Bruce Springsteen