Adapted Quote by Jude Law

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I…

— Jeff Britting

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think,…

— Peter Shaffer

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because…

— Stephen King

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look…

— Tim Crouch

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the…

— Sarah Waters

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant…

— Don DeLillo

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco