Adaptation Quote by Nick Cave

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

— Marjane Satrapi

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

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

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

— Dana Brunetti

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

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

— Lev Grossman

When you are adapting a book to a visual medium, you tend to leave a few things and add a few new ones.

— Vetrimaaran

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

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

— Nicole Krauss

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan