Book Quote by Dave Eggers Download Open image “When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.” — Dave Eggers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Cutting
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you -… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned, they use much too much barbecue sauce, which anyone should know has the almost immediate effect of soaking the bun, the bun becoming like oatmeal, inedible, the burger ruined, all in a matter of minutes--so quick… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to the sea. I can already see where I'll end. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: I don't know what to tell you. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: But the thing is, I really love moving like this, though I know… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
