Able Quote by William Monahan

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

— Nicholas Sparks

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or…

— Charles Dance

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to…

— Sreenivasan

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and…

— Abdellah Taia

I think that some of the writing, directing, and the content is better than a lot of movies sometimes. Actors, well artists in general…

— Denise Di Novi

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

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