William Boyd

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.