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I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

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

I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.