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Writer Turns down Movie Deal

10 June 2002

Writer Turns down Movie Deal

The minute a film is made, a book dwindles away and becomes nothing. I want it to be a book that people can make the movie in their heads.'

Screenwriter William Nicholson, author of the Wind Singer children's trilogy, announcing at the Hay-on Wye Book Festival that he's turned down a $1 million offer for film rights in his books.