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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

— Iain Banks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

— Lisa See

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

— Marjane Satrapi

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

— Rodman Philbrick

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

— Katherine Paterson

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

— Paul Auster

✗Opposing Perspectives

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

— Bernhard Schlink

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

— Alice Hoffman