People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

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