“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.” ThinkingYearsWellsSaidWarMatterTodayFilmFunNovelSubjectsShotsConcernedYears AgoCastsVietnamVietnam WarSubject MatterShort TimeEclecticBarbaraHad FunOmarHershey Author:Bruce Willis
“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingStoriesShowsCoursesFunJusticeViewsNovelAliveMysteryOughtOffersHungerBeing TrueDetectivesOrderlyMystery NovelsStealthDetective Stories Book:Thrones, Dominations Source: Thrones, Dominations
“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.” WayWritingFunNovelEasierTwentiesNovelistsScreenplaysScreenwriting Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.” IfsHomeFunNovelAdventureVampireEpicHammersGothicBack HomeKimNewmanGranddaddyStoker Author:Christopher Fowler
“When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayBelieveCharacterCultureFunI BelieveInterestingFantasyNovelTownsNew WorldFantasy Novels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.” ThinkingWorldWayI CanCharacterFunViewsNovelInformationScriptsDareBackgroundsHaving FunDiscouragedLiberating Author:Juliet Asante
“The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.” ThinkingWayTwoCharacterFunVoiceAbilityNovelEasierGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Eric Kripke
“In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.” WantEndsGirlFunNovelRichHeroTenLaysStealingServantCheatingVillainVirginsGet RichWhipping Author:Herman J. Mankiewicz
“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongI CanFormFunLinesHalfBreakNovelAdviceBearsHabitPagesProseLengthPaceExcessProceedingBest AdviceAll The BestRewritingSnailTinkering Author:Debra Dean
“I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.” PeoplePersonsMadeWarFactsKidsFunNovelChocolateVillainEstablishmentCool PeopleCool KidCool Person Author:Simon Rich
“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.” WritingBookIdeasFunPerfectFictionNovelHistoricalBoringFascinatingFoundersDocumentsUtopianPerfect Society Author:Christine Jennings
“I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.” IfsKnowsStoriesFunGrowsNovelFindingsMake SenseBoredShort Story Author:Nicholas Royle
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen
“Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.” FunNovelStrangeActivityConceptsUnusualHabitualMilkshakes Author:Ian Bogost
“What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.” ThinkingWellsHeartKindCharacterBigsFunCausesEmotionNovelScarySexyComplicatedStorytellingInvitesTentsEdgy Author:Eric Kripke