Adapt Quote by David Baddiel

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

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

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

— Joseph Wambaugh

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art…

— James Franco

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only…

— Jonathan Franzen

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same…

— Peter Jackson

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

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett