"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."
- Bret Easton Ellis
"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."
- Jim Bouton
"There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency transmitting utility meters. For these reasons I did not shield..."
- Steven Magee
"Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation."
- Alan Hollinghurst
"In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!’ To which I reply ‘Well, why? I..."
- Orson Scott Card
"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we att..."
- George R.R. Martin
"In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book: I wasn't blond, I wasn't tan, and neither was the actor. I also suddenly bec..."