I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I had been writing professionally since 1988

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project