Adapt Quote by W. Bruce Cameron

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

— Dave Eggers

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

— Jonathan Glazer

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

— Vikramaditya Motwane

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

— Marjane Satrapi

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 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

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher…

— Mark Haddon

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

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

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare