But he added: "The most valuable thing I can buy with money now is time, and at the speed with which I write I have to alternate books with screenplays.
As the authors of The Disaster Artist have chosen to alternate the book's focus, it touches on two of the major components of being an artist, in Hollywood and everywhere else: trying to "make it," and bringing your artistic vision to fruition.
When you plan your reading schedule, alternate between books you are eager to read and books you dread.
I was just thinking I would do an alternate-history book, with a little bit of a twist.
Last year, Amazon tapped Oscar-winning writer and "Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins to adapt the acclaimed alternate-history book The Underground Railroad into a drama series.
"She would go back and forth," alternating challenging books with uncomplicated melodrama like Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone," "so she would capture different readers".
Bell is a prolific writer who in recent years has alternated big books -- in particular a historical novel trilogy in progress (the first installment, "All Souls' Rising," was a finalist for the National Book Award) -- with shorter works.
His comprehensive history of the measure and its uses, which is written in a prose style that alternates between book-reportese and high Molotov outrage, compares G.D.P. to any number of villains in order to make tangible the number's many flaws.
At Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Aeroméxico staff members tried with little success to help passengers book alternate flights.
King and Jackson first worked together during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, but the Pinkneys take the reader further back: the early pages of the book alternate between scenes of King's childhood in Atlanta and of Jackson's in New Orleans.
Set in Mississippi just after World War II, the story is told by a chorus of narrators who alternate throughout the book: Laura McAllan, whose husband, Henry, has moved her from her city life in Memphis to a Mississippi Delta farm; Henry himself; his charming drunken brother Jamie; and the farm's share tenants, Florence and Hap Jackson and their son Ronsel, a veteran who fought in Europe.
