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 and never look at it again! (Ben Elton)

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 and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

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