Adaptation Quote by David Brock

“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people communicate, they…

— Jerome Stern

“What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct speech by…

— Robert Alter

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say…

— Kevin Ayers

“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying…

— Paul Acampora

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.”

— Philip Gerard

“He ran his mind over the things they had said, the random, unnecessary things which had eddied round and round and used up all…

— Virginia Woolf

“Great book speak volumes while saying little.”

— Travis Simmons

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut…

— Kenneth Branagh

“Sorry that book doesn’t come on audio, so you’re going to have to sound out all the big words.”

— Sarah Noffke