Adaptation Quote by Lev Grossman Download Open image “My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.” — Lev Grossman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adaptation Book Books Goal Goals Motivation People Thinking Ultimate Ultimate goal
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
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 issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall… — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking for trouble.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to the Screen… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved to thrive… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
