Adaptations Quote by Alan Hollinghurst

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

— James Franco

“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far as he…

— Flannery O'Connor

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

— George S. Kaufman

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse shit.”

— Stephen King

“A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.”

— Alan Bradley

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven…

— George R.R. Martin

'The Living And The Dead' is one of those scripts that you read and are instantly compelled and engaged by. It's intelligent, chilling, and…

— Colin Morgan

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem…

— James A. Baldwin