“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”
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For 'So Cold the River, ' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter, ' and who also wrote '8 Mile, ' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
