How would you interpret this sentence?
“So. Matus the snake has contacted me because a motion-picture option got his attention. That’s what you think?”
“You know what they say. God wants to punish you, he answers your prayers.”
“Artie, I didn’t pray for a motion picture. It makes me uneasy. I don’t like attention.”
“You have a funny way of choosing your profession, in that case.”
“People think that. If a person is famous, he must have wanted to be in the public eye. But to me, writing books is a way to earn a living in my pajamas.”
How would you interpret this sentence in the second passage: God wants to punish you, he answers your prayers?
PS: The first speaker was a novelist and the other was his lawyer.
Thanks! And it’s from The Lacuna.