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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

Films are always different from books.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.