Quotes About Adaptation

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.

What we can control is our readiness.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

There's no drill that you can do as a DB to get ready for what I do on the field.

I think a fighter should be ready and able to adapt to anything that is in front of him in the ring.

I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

It's hard to come off the bench and be ready all the time.

Matt Hardy came into ROH with open arms. Matt came into ROH ready to learn.

There's a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.