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
“There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.”
“I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”