“I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.” IfsShouldWritingDoeArtBookIdeasFormMaterialsArtisticVisualsVisual ArtWrite Your Own Author:Chris Van Allsburg
“We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books and articles. We are constantly emailing articles around the writers' room. We have dipped ourselves in prison culture and lore and media, and the experience and the people. We really want to be as informed as possible.” PeopleWantBookCultureRoomsMediaMaterialsResearchPrisonArticlesSpeakers Author:Jenji Kohan
“The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoBookDifferentSometimesCharacterStoriesUniverseLinesMaterialsTvsSeriesTreasureMediumsComicBagsComic BookTv SeriesTake Your Time Author:Glen Mazzara
“But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.” IfsWayTryingBelieveKindBookDifferentThreeActorsI BelieveMaterialsSourceScreensComicDimensionsComic BookThree Dimensions Author:Clark Gregg
“We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very intense and very demanding of the reader, and the movie should be that too.” WayWantShouldBookGamesMaterialsReaderHungerIntenseIrresponsibleHunger Games BookGame Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that character, but it was really cool because, as we were figuring these characters out, I realized that there was a lot more backstory, rather than what I had gotten just from reading the book. Glenn doesn't really get much of a backstory there. He's just seen as this kid who is put in this situation, not knowing where his mind-set is, but then you slowly see him start to develop.” MindBookCharacterKidsWantedReadingSituationKnowingFansMaterialsSourceI RealizedNot KnowingReally CoolMind Set Author:Steven Yeun
“Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.” WorldWayMeanBookWholeCasesMaterialsDisciplineOrdinaryUnderstoodPhilosophicalWestAvailableIntellectEastHave FaithScholarSufiEast And WestWorking LifeBook Learning Book:The Sufis Source: The Sufis
“At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.” BookIdeasRealRealityReadingFeltObjectsMaterialsTensionIntangible Author:Sergio Chejfec
“"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.” HumansBookMightEyeTogetherRiskMaterialsEasierDrawsCastsTheologyContemporaryFaithfulThemeContributionHelpfulContrastBiblicalOrganizePreciseRelevanceSystematicDistinctiveTrajectoryOversimplification Author:D. A. Carson
“I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsBookUseBigsWantedMaterialsBiggerStructureArchitecture Author:Jami Attenberg
“Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.” ThinkingWritingBookRememberNamesFunEasyProcessWonderfulMaterialsStructureFamiliarFantasticNarrativeCharmPlotEntertainingIngenuityIntricate Author:Marina Warner
“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).” YearsBookEndsJobsDealsCuttingMaterialsBirthYeahObligedJuniorsBlogsPizzaJunior High Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.” FeelsChildrenBookAbleWaitingPayMaterialsLuckyYearningChildren's Books Author:Sophie Blackall
“All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.” LooksBookEnjoyDifferencesMaterialsDegreesFlashback Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I was producing things I was acting in, but I had never directed and I felt it was time. I was looking for a piece of material that was about behavior and feelings. When I read Judith Guest's book, I thought, This is it.” BookFeelingsFeltActingPiecesMaterialsBehaviorGuests Author:Robert Redford
“I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.” BookFeltMaterialsKingsFortuneReverenceGood Fortune Author:Bridget Carpenter
“I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.” PeopleMenYearsBookDifferentDoneLastsGuyStuffTalentMaterialsInvolvedPercentTraditionIncrediblesComicComic BookSuperheroX MenAvengers Author:Mark Millar
“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” ThinkingWantBookCharacterBigsWonderfulMaterialsSourceCreatingDevilFemaleDressesScreensNovelistsComing OutFemale CharactersBig ScreenPradaFamous BookDevil Wears Prada Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.” PeopleIfsStillsBookLastsPastWinningEffortPrinciplesFailingMaterialsGood ThingsGood PeopleChaptersInherentAccuracy Author:Frank Luntz
“When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.” KnowsBookFilmFiguresMaterialsOne DayDiariesAdderall Author:James Franco