You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

