In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line... →
Chuck Palahniuk
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are... →
My books are all fantastically sentimental.
I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be... →
My books didn't fit a marketing niche.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books... →
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
Orhan Pamuk
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.