Do you think that making a movie of a book changes the readership?
"I think it can only expand the readership and I think that’s ok. I get asked a lot because A Monster Calls is becoming a movie as well and people say: what if it’s not any good? All you can do is get the best people you can, and hope. I wrote A Monster Calls, so I wanted to be part of the conversation for that, and I hope it does well, I hope they are good movies. There are good people making it, but whatever happens with the movie, the book will always exist. The book will always be there, the book will always be mine. However people come to the book – if people come to the book through the movie, great. Great! Because it’s more different experiences for people to have reading the book, and I’m very, very happy about that."
- Patrick Ness in an interview with Isabel Popple for Waterstone's blog x