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  • Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

    "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.