John Connolly

Yeah, but I had a destination, but I didn't know the route I was going to take to it.

And so...

I then have again the George R. R. Martin situation, which is what happened with him was that television overtook the material that he had in hand.

So the television overtook his books.

And he had obviously sat down with them at some point, as I had, and said, look, here's what I'm planning.

But then when it came down to it, nobody liked his ending.

And I think poor old George R. R. Martin got creatively stymied at that stage because what do you do?

You have a series that's incomplete.

Nobody liked the ending that you came up with.

You kind of kick that ball down the road and hope maybe God takes you so you don't have to worry about it.

Literally, I am the least important person in this process, genuinely.

I'm the person who sits at home and occasionally somebody makes a telephone call and asks me something.

I did have to go through the books and really find...

material that I thought would be useful for them.

Rather than have some poor guy or girl have to sit down with three million words of my deathless prose and wade through it.

So I kind of did a lot of the hard work there and picked and chose these.

But genuinely, one would be very unwise to go putting down a deposit on a yacht.

At this stage.

No, you're not doing that.

No, I'm not.