I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.
I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.