No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV a
“A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.”
“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”