Adaptation Quote by Philip Kitcher

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

— Mason Cooley

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious…

— China Mieville

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

— Thomas Paine

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.… a tour…

— Noah Richler

“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic…

— Warren Ellis

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

— Salman Rushdie

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put,…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is…

— Andrea Arnold

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those…

— Leonard Maltin

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the…

— John Cheever