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I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.