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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
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. It can't be done. -- Paul Auster
When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies." -- John Granger
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street. -- Robert D. McFadden
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. -- Stan Brakhage
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. -- Stephen Moyer
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Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel. -- Colson Whitehead
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. -- Walter Kirn
I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things. -- Dana Spiotta
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. -- Christopher Hampton
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. -- Emir Kusturica
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. -- Christopher Hampton
I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.' -- James Caan
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me. -- Justin Cronin
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts. -- Jess Walter
Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film. -- Jeremy Sisto
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard. -- Stephen Gaghan
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it. -- Alan Ball
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances? -- John Logan
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. -- Jane Fonda
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. -- Richard Russo
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. -- Irena A. Hoffman
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments -- Yasmin Mogahed
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. -- Kurt Busiek
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do! -- Charles Stross
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel. -- Nicholas Sparks

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