“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.” FeelsWritingMindFirstsHas BeensHelpingFilmValuesSinQualityNovelJudgingImpactMereCriticsDrivenGuiltyCraftsCinemaVisualsProseTechniciansDisserviceFilm Critics Author:Orson Welles
“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
“It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.” PeopleHappensThreeSpaceNovelVisualsVagueVisual Images Author:Don DeLillo
“I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.” FeelsWritingI CanFeelingsProcessNovelCreativeScenePaperVisualsPensTyping Author:Cecelia Ahern
“I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.” ThinkingArtMatterNovelParticularInnovationFaultsInspiredExperimentsPainterVisualsVisual Art Author:J. G. Ballard
“I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a certain amount of internal thinking that goes on in a novel (that) you can't do...in a screenplay. But I think, pacing wise, my novels move quickly because (they aren't overly) descriptive.” ThinkingMovingCertainNovelWiseGoes OnAmountVisualsInternalsScreenplaysStandpointPacing Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.” WritingArtSelfSpaceNovelConditionsExpressionGainsVariousVisualsArticlesConventionsRestrictionSelf ExpressionVisual Art Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
“But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based on like, 100 novels. They're just fantastic. They're set in the '60s. A lot of the visual inspiration definitely came from 1960 James Bond movies and 'OSS 177' and also 'Pink Panther' movies.” ThinkingMadeBookInspirationFilmDarkNovelOriginalsSexyMade ItFantasticVisualsSpy1960sNestsAssassinsPanthersHelmCairoBond MovieJames Bond MoviePink Panther Author:Adam Reed
“I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.” WellsStoriesFeltNovelVisualsRunnersGraphicKitesRetellingGraphic Novels Author:Khaled Hosseini