Adapt Quote by Cord Jefferson Download Open image “Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it.” — Cord Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adapt Reading Soon Started Wanted
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the… — Horace Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard. — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
To be very good at football, you need to be able to snuff out the voice inside of you that says it's better for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the reasons I loved 'Moonlight.' I don't remember if there's a single white person in that movie. It's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been - and have… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because, you know,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hostility directed at writers who cover minority beats in America is solid proof that those people are doing important work. But that work… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that there's no outside arbiter of who 'deserves' which woman, or of what one 'deserves' to receive from a… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ancelotti immediately understood me and put me in the right situation to adapt quickly. I was 18 and, at that age, it is difficult.… — Marco Verratti Copy Share Image
You always can improve and I think that's the beauty of international cricket, particularly test cricket, is playing all around the world against different… — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
A career is about learning to adapt yourself to the new environment and learning to sink or swim. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
