The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

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

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.