Books Quote by Walter Kirn

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the…

— Les Standiford

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do…

— Julie Andrews