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John le Carre

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on th

John le Carre

Imagination

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John le Carre believes that novelists create a vivid mental experience as they write, imagining every detail like casting actors and setting scenes, which is different from the practical skills needed to make an actual film. He suggests that writers rely heavily on their imagination to bring a story to life internally, rather than on the technical aspects of movie production.

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