Emma Thompson Book Quotations

I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.