How well do your favourite novels translate into movies or TV series? 

Being a mystery buff, I loved the latest ‘Cardinal’ serial based on the detective fiction of Canadian writer, Giles Blunt.  

Going back a few years, Denzel Washington was perfect in his role as Easy
Rawlins in Walter Mosley’s ‘Devil in a Blue Dress.’    

So, the question: do you have any favourite reads that became your favourite
movies… or just as interesting perhaps… that bombed on the big or small screens?

“I don’t like to write. I like having written.” 

This quote has been attributed to Dorothy Parker and to fantasy writer George R.R. Martin as well. My brother thought it was George Plympton.  Maybe they all said it. But who said it first?

The ‘Quote Investigator’ (can you believe there’s such a person/entity/thing?) found that the honour belongs to novelist Frank Norris, who died soon after the turn of the twentieth century. The comment was pulled from a letter discovered in 1915, years after his death. 

Too witty not to borrow it, I guess. But how true was/is it?