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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.