Book Quote by Vikramaditya Motwane

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

Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only…

— Jennifer Egan

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to…

— W. Bruce Cameron

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

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

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

— Marjane Satrapi

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.

— Patricia Leavy

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

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

— Dave Eggers

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

— Vetrimaaran

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer