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
He had materially modified the French plot in his English play; and he got still further away from Brisebarre and Nus, when he novelized 'Gold,' and called it 'Hard Cash,' a matter-of-fact romance.
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
Such bombast raises a problem inherent in all historical novelizing.
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
