Gabriel García Márquez: I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of — Gabriel García Márquez

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

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From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. — Émile Zola
The new formula of the novel is not to make the novel. — Jules Renard
I lie on the beach like a crocodile and let myself be roasted by the sun. I neve — Albert Einstein
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. — Mark Twain
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may — Napoleon
Solitude is the mother of anxieties. — Publilius Syrus
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