Adaptation Quote by Rod Serling

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and…

— Wanda Sykes

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts are coming…

— Todd Farmer

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original,…

— Jane Goldman

We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's…

— John Francis Daley

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see…

— Alex Garland

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen,…

— Barry Eisler