Adapting Quote by James Franco

“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when…

— Alan Hollinghurst

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

— Rumer Godden

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

— Terry Southern

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is…

— John Green

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

— Christopher Paolini

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

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book,…

— Emma Thompson

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

— Carrie Coon

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

“No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.”

— Neil Gaiman