Adapting Quote by Jonathan Tropper Download Open image “Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.” — Jonathan Tropper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adapting Book Books Child Like Own Performing Surgery Your
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
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
I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. — Ice Cube 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
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
Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse. — Marjane Satrapi 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
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right… — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
Firmino is a player who is really good at adapting to different positions. He is a No. 9, but he helps a lot in… — Fabinho Copy Share Image
Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson Copy Share Image
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order to establish… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
