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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.

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.