novelize
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“And we’re in this beautiful golden age of television where we can novelize a TV show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020
Lynn Potter knew she had enough for a gripping read and had long planned to novelize the results by working off the letters.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016
Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I started to look into that, I uncovered another amazing story, and I novelized her journey from obscurity in Baltimore to the British throne, almost.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2023
Part homage, part psychological investigation, this novelized portrait of Huisman’s mother captures the life of a charismatic, unstable and exasperating woman — as well as the experience of growing up in her ambit.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Two years after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” hit theaters, Quentin Tarantino has novelized his Oscar-winning movie, calling the result a “complete rethinking” of the story.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021
Keneally’s book is a novelized version of a true story: how German industrialist and Nazi named Oskar Schindler managed to save 1,200 Jews from transportation to concentration camps.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
Now that the drama is rising again into rivalry with prose fiction, is not the playwright who allows his piece to be novelized a traitor to his cause?
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
“That was what my mother did,” she said, referring to the act of novelizing one’s life.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
On the same day, she is seen writing a review of Tolstoy's letters for a little magazine and indulging in that most superfluous of literary activities, novelizing a screenplay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is the author simply novelizing, inventing characters and taking them for a stroll?
From Time Magazine Archive
II But altho the dramatizing of novels was less uncommon a century or two ago than the novelizing of plays, neither was frequent and neither of them was in any way prohibited by law.
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
