Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.
I get excited about having finished a new book.
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
I've been very lucky with all my adaptations - they were made by intelligent people who liked the books, and I know that not all authors feel this way.
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
I don't think of High Fidelity as a real hip book.
I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.
If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway.
But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
I reckon 75 at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.
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