A Quote by Oscar Hijuelos

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

Oscar Hijuelos

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Films Great Novel Thousand Worth

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Oscar Hijuelos
American - Novelist
August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Honore de Balzac

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

Mati Klarwein

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Ben Shneiderman

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Joan Didion

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Edward Abbey

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Doris Lessing

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

George Bernard Shaw

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

Doris Lessing

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Francis Ford Coppola

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

Louise Imogen Guiney

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

Stephen Hawking

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.