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I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.

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 something new.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

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!

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.