1.   Among writers, Hollywood is well-known as a place where big promises are made and usually broken when it comes to turning literary novels into popular movies.

2.   And Ms. Collins is already toying with the idea of turning her novel into a screenplay.

3.   Any film is going to turn a novel into something completely different.

4.   By weaving serious fiction into the confessional fabric of her daytime talk show, Oprah Winfrey has shown an unprecedented ability to turn literary novels into best sellers.

5.   Even Irving himself has had difficulty turning his novels into movies.

6.   He also wrote a range of screenplays, and almost all his novels were turned into films.

7.   Grisham himself has taken the money and run, all the way to Hollywood, which routinely turns his novels into movies.

8.   He continued to turn out novels, many of them successful, quasi-intellectual potboilers.

9.   John Huston turned the novel into a hit film, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner and Anjelica Huston.

10.   Lo and behold, Kevin Costner turned the novel into a movie last year, and the new screenwriter felt Roth deserved half the credit.