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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.