Hollywood Vs. The Author : Rare Bird Books : 9781945572869 : 1945572868 : 27 Dec 2018 : It's no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that ?the book was better than the movie? holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book rights to Hollywood authors like to joke that they drive their manuscripts to the border of Arizona and California and toss them over the fence, driving back the way they came at breakneck speed. This is probably because Hollywood just doesn't ?get it.? Its vision for the film or TV series rarely seems to match the vision of the author. And for those rare individuals who've had the fortune of sitting across the desk from one of the myriad, interchangeable development execs praising the brilliance of their work while ticking off a never-ending list of notes for the rewrite, the pros of pitching their work to Hollywood rarely outweigh the cons. Stephen Jay Schw