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“Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going.”

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Author:David Henry Hwang

“I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.”

“. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?”

Ifs Soul Creative Evolution Adaptation Progression

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.”

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Book:A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer

Source: A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer

“There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).”

Thinking Firsts Kind Remember Enemy Plans Impossible Danger Contact Unnecessary Adaptation Seducing Iceberg First Contact

Author:Tim Harford

“It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.”

Pain Film Community Vision Creative Danger Honor Authority Lovely Plenty Adaptation Creative Life

Author:Mitali Perkins

“Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.”

Character Games Seeing Video Memorable Adaptation Memorable Characters

Author:David S. Goyer

“I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably Tomb Raider. Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.”

Thinking Games Successful Video Adaptation Tombs Good Movie Raiders Tomb Raider

Author:David S. Goyer

“The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.”

Mystery Adaptation Fidelity Promiscuity

Author:David Hare

“What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.”

Principles Superiors Mastery Adaptation Hardness Controlling Things

Book:Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

“Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.”

Should Names Written Television Scripts Theatre Rely Adaptation Implied

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.”

Environment Exercise Activity Essence Practicals Efficient Adaptation Practical Life

Author:Maria Montessori

“The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.”

“Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!”

Men Animal Accustomed Adaptation

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”

Law Justice Common Instance Combination Customs Adaptation Common Law

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.”

Ifs Adaptation

Book:Turning Points

Source: Turning Points

“The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.”

Opportunity Process Term Environment Conditions Information Evolution Factors Combination Organisms Adaptation Cognitive Mutation New Opportunity New Information

Author:Konrad Lorenz

“Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.”

Want Book Film Comic Rooted Adaptation Comic Strips

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.”

Dream Film Spirit Fields Essence Caught Unhappy Visuals Adaptation Necessary Change Field Of Dreams Film Adaptations

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.”

People Thinking Reading Novel Couple Sitting Down And Now And Then Adaptation Atonement Sitting Down

Author:Christopher Hampton

“I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.”

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Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.”

Ifs Waiting Worry Ready Sells Zero Adaptation Screenplays Do It Yourself

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.”

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Author:Suzanne Collins

“I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.”

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Author:Tommy Davidson

“As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.”

Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change

“At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.”

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Author:Cary Fowler

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