The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.