Books matter to kids, they don’t matter that much to adults, they’re just too many adults books are just a way to use up time, but they affect the lives of children. It has such an affect on boys, it’s turned a lot of boys into pretty good magicians, I’d meet them.
They’d tell me, oh that was that book that turned them on and your other books do the same things. They will write and tell me how the books affected them. You don’t get those books very often, occasionally, but you don’t get them from adults. And believe me, nobody writes a screen writer, I don’t know how many movies I’ve written.
I don’t think I’ve ever received one letter and I have a lot screen writer friends, none of them have ever told me they got a letter from anybody
