I wrote a novel this year called <b>Shop Girl</b>, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, "If you think you're going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending...that's going to cost you.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
