“The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.” DifferentStoriesJobsNovelEssenceScreensVehicleMaintainingScreenplays Author:Barry Eisler
“In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.” WritingStoriesFictionCrimeTvsEssenceExcitingTalesCompellingJewelsThrillersCrime Fiction Author:Hank Phillippi Ryan
“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.” HumansWellsRealStoriesBodyActionFictionPaintingEssenceHuman BodyTrue StoryResemblance Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” IfsWritingMayStoriesSeemsTodayIndividualFictionEssenceSalvationScience FictionCriticsPhilosopherSavedCoreThriveCrucialCornyFiction Stories Author:Isaac Asimov