A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people`s adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.
John Skow
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
William Shakespeare
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novelEdward Abbey
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novelEdward Abbey
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction. Right now, my favorite author is p...
Cassie Steele
I am always ashamed of the slowness of my reading. I think it stems from the fact that when I come across dialogue in a novel, I can`t resist treating it as the text of a play and acting it out, with significant pauses and all.
Alec Guinness
My first ambition was to be a writer. I have always been very interested in writing. But it seems to me that I have more capacity for telling a story with images. It seems I have more talent for filmmaking than for writing a novel, which is my dream. I ha...
Pedro Almodovar
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."
J.K. Rowling
I was a total nerd growing up. I`d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year`s Eve and say, `Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!` That was my idea of a big time.
Beth Broderick
[On the film Sharky`s Machine (1981)]: Author Sidney Sheldon first mentioned William Diehl`s novel Sharky`s Machine to me at a party. Soon afterward Clint Eastwood sent me a copy of the same best-selling book with a note saying: "This is Dirty Harry in At...
Burt Reynolds
I felt someday I`d write the Great American Novel and I didn`t want to use my real name on these silly little comics [about why he changed his name to Stan Lee to begin with.]
Stan Lee
It was such a fabulous role that I can`t be at all surprised, let alone upset, that people still mention it. We were very lucky to have 13 episodes in which to dramatize Evelyn Waugh`s novel, and one reason for the series` impact is a combination of time,...
Anthony Andrews
I find sometimes that it`s more difficult to do very simple, low-key films, like I`ve done with André Téchiné. Sometimes, at the end of a shoot with him, I feel very down, like I`m leaving something because these are low-key but novel characters. But when...
Catherine Deneuve
I just did not have time to sit down and write a book. - When questioned about her use of a ghost writer for her novel "Swan" (1996). Campbell admitted that she wrote almost none of the book.
Naomi Campbell
Movie making is not like other artforms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be disgested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it`s always judged on money.
M. Shyamalan
It`s so attractive, too attractive. Your writing becomes more real than your reality. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. After writing her semi- autobiographical novel ...
Sophie Marceau
[when asked why he picked Larry McMurtry`s novel "The Last Picture Show" as subject matter] I liked the idea of doing a period piece because I like anything better in the past than in the present. I`m not moved by things that happen in the present, only w...
Peter Bogdanovich
I wrote a novel this year called "Shop Girl", and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you`re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending . . . that`s going ...
Steve Martin
As far as The Last Legion (2007) is concerned, it is a film based on a book [A novel by Valerio Manfredi]. I don`t think the character of Meera [her role] is there in the book. I did the film for the new experience and it is for the first time that I was ...
Aishwarya Rai
(On writing his novel, The Hottest State) "Writing the book had to do with dropping out of college, and with being an actor. I didn`t want my whole life to go by and not do anything but recite lines. I wanted to try making something else. It was definitel...
Ethan Hawke
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it`s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
Harmony Korine
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
Chow Yun-Fat
I`m not the indie kid, and I`m also not the John Grisham novel hero, but I am all of those things. I do whatever excites me at the time. I`ll be in some huge $80 million buddy cop movie, I don`t care, and I`ll also do some wild independent movie. I refuse...
Joaquin Phoenix
Up to now -- since shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution -- most movie makers have been assuming that they know how to make movies. Just like a bad writer doesn`t ask himself if he`s really capable of writing a novel -- he thinks he knows. If movie maker...
Jean-Luc Godard
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that`s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn`t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I`ll like because that ide...
Stephen King
[Discussing his role in Hostage (2005/I)] In the novel, my character was written as a 400-pound, 30-year-old massive force. Since I am not that, I had to find a different direction. I based my character on a serial who saw his parents die and now has a fe...
Ben Foster
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
