Author Quote by Walter Kirn

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are…

— Lev Grossman

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels…

— Alexander Payne

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

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are…

— Don Winslow

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that…

— Lois Lowry

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not…

— Marjane Satrapi

“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really…

— Joe Queenan

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it…

— Richard Price