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I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.


Brian Christian


#reading #design

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.


Bret Easton Ellis


#being #christian #dream #grey #her

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.


Anita Brookner


#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.


Raymond Chandler


#inevitable #law #least #must #mystery

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.


Harlan Coben


#book #change #crime #crisis #every

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.


Leonard Cohen


#i #need #novels #road #stability

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.


Joan Collins


#away #because #compositions #i #little

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.


Francis Ford Coppola


#book #darkness #did #heart #i

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.


Diane Johnson


#along #always #author #aware #deeper

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.


C. S. Forester


#end #felt #heard #i #joined