In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

The novel remains a very special form for me.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

I'm one of three brothers.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.