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I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

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.

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.