Books Quote by Wayne Coyne

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the…

— Edwin Catmull

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

— Richard Russo

When you're writing a screenplay, it's like you're dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a…

— Greta Gerwig

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

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do…

— Alice Munro

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

— Yann Martel

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have.…

— Michael Angarano

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman