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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.
With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.