Copy Quote by Anthony Doerr

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you…

— Killian Scott

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's…

— Chris Carter

It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we…

— Ramona Koval

As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is going to…

— Jesse Armstrong

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

— Ed Harris

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

— Anne Fadiman

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that…

— Lois Lowry

It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other…

— John Ashbery

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

— John Caples

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn