There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.