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
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
Often it isn’t the main events of history that ask to be novelized, but the footnotes, the things mentioned in passing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2020
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
Yet only one of these novelized plays has succeeded in winning an honorable place for itself in prose fiction.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
“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
A cinematic kind of novelizing is more fashionable now, in which the page is a movie screen, wondrous but neutral.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such bombast raises a problem inherent in all historical novelizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this happy state can be brought about only if the dramatists resolutely refrain from novelizing their plays themselves, and from authorizing novelization by others.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
