I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.