“I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the more colors you have to a film the better. The more genres, the more people will like it. I like relating to the whole general speaking public. The script itself is 99 pages but the novel it is based on is 600. I had to leave a lot of stuff out of the script. I had a limitation of what I could present on the big screen.” PeopleThinkingTwoWholeBigsFilmThreeAsksStuffLinesNovelComedyColorDramaPagesScriptsScreensLimitationGenreAsk MeBig Screen Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.” PeopleWritingWantedNovelSparkle Author:Danielle Dutton
“By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.” PeopleKnowsWritingNovelWrittenSeeingFeetBillsFilledScreensProseScreenplaysBlueprintsAdaptingKill Bill Author:Quentin Tarantino
“One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.” PeopleThinkingMenShouldHas BeensPoorNovelOne ThingFoolPaperCriticizeAcademicSwine Author:William Golding
“I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsGivingShouldWritingPersonsI CanNovelDo You KnowPrescriptions Author:Sandra Cisneros
“When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHas BeensCountryDreamMightCoursesLostNovelMastersCreatingHighestRoseForgottenMythologyMagazinesSincereComplimentHeritageForgivenEngagingCompassCultural Heritage Author:Vera Nazarian
“Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And in the work of moral psychologists, people deliberate and reflect a lot. They deliberate, one sometimes feels, whenever they perform an action, and certainly whenever they act for good reasons.” PeopleSometimesReasonCharacterActionMoralNovelPsychologyCarEthicsPsychologistLaundry Book:Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency Source: Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency
“We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.” PeopleWellsKindTwoDifferentThreeDealsNovelWrittenIntimacyDisappointedDifferent KindsWell Written Author:Ann Patchett
“I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.” PeopleLongBookNovelSeriousLiteracyOld DaysGood Old DaysMoaning Author:Robert Hass
“So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.” PeopleIfsBigsEnjoyNovelGenerationsThirdsCaringEpicNot Caring Author:Emma Donoghue
“Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways.” PeopleWayIdeasNovelModelsTraditionalGet RealOutputCombiningCoca Cola Author:John Kao
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.” PeopleWritingProblemFictionNovelRegions Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they're quite frank, they didn't care much about Afghanistan. But they pay attention more after reading these novels, and at times it has triggered this humaitarian spirt: some have donated money or at time times, people have joined humatiarian organizations that work in Afghanistan.” PeopleKnowsCareReadingPayAttentionNovelLettersOrganizationResponsePay AttentionAfghanistanMailFrank Author:Khaled Hosseini
“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingHumansBookDifferentUseConsciousnessNovelFunctionVarietyGenreDifferent WaysAccurateDelightedHuman Consciousness Author:Emily Barton
“I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it functions, but I think that, in some senses, in those two novels, that was difficult for people to see.” PeopleThinkingTwoDifficultNovelFunctionSensesTestament Author:Emily Barton
“A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.” PeopleThinkingWayPastSpeakBornNovelHavensRight Now Author:Emily Barton
“A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.” PeopleWellsTwoEndsHappensNovelPossibilityCome Up Author:Emily Barton