“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.” AbilityFictionNovelReaderMediumsNarrativeI've LearnedLengthLacking Author:Ron Rash
“I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.” ShouldChildrenStoriesNovelEffectsAdventureSucceedShould HaveProfoundRadioFamiliarMediumsComicListenersComic Strips Author:Orson Welles
“What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.” StoriesCoursesOpportunityHoursNovelRichTvsTypeMediums Author:Chris Pratt
“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsShouldBelieveStillsBookSometimesStoriesCoursesGamesBrainNovelSawsTelevisionSeriesVery GoodTheatreVideoMediumsComplexityGreat WorkGood BookRichnessGood MovieI Still BelieveMovie Theatre Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.” PeopleKnowsStillsTwoDifferentWantedTurnsNovelStorytellingMediumsVisualsFrankGraphicGraphic NovelsVisual Storytelling Author:Robert Rodriguez
“Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.” KindHas BeensArtIdeasUseFormEmotionNovelStylePaintingTheaterConservativeArchitectureMediumsCinemaMovieOperaFrozenSculptureDance Music Author:Susan Sontag
“The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.” EndsNovelMajorityForgottenMediumsDestined Author:Lev Grossman
“The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.” FormNovelUltimateMediums Author:Chad Harbach
“The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.” IfsHelpingLiteraturePerfectNovelMoralityScriptureMediumsNovelistsRainbowRevealingThumbsDidactic Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.” ThinkingPlayFilmChallengesNovelMediums Author:Julian Fellowes
“Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.” FilmLinesNovelClearStrikesMediumsFantasticBroadsSubtletyNuance Author:William Boyd
“I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.” WritingUseRunningFilmNovelDirectorsTechniqueMediumsNovelists Author:Philippe Claudel
“What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.” PeopleWantWritingIdeasFilmNovelComedyTheaterWhat You WantMediumsSatireLectures Author:Justin Simien
“You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.” BookValuesNovelAchievementMediumsNervousComicRelativeComic BookGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Adrian Tomine
“The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.” NovelGreaterWrittenSpecialPropertyMediums Author:Joseph O'Neill
“I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.” FeelsWritingSometimesWould BeCoursesLanguageUnderstandingGoalForgetNovelReaderMediumsNovelistsTransparent Author:Paul Auster
“I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsBookNovelMediaTelevisionOriginalsHungryMediumsComicOriginalityLackingComic BookWant SomethingGraphicRemakesGraphic Novels Author:Miles Millar
“Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.” PeopleBookMightAbleAmericaReadingCasesNovelHabitPicksExcitingRadioMediumsNovelistsLatinLatin AmericaReading Novels Author:Daniel Alarcon
“Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansKindHas BeensStillsDifferentStoriesLastsCoursesVoiceSleepPowerfulMorningNovelCuttingElementsToolsNotesNotionRadioStorytellingMediumsNarrativeNovelistsLogicalShiftingHuman Voice Author:Daniel Alarcon