Books Quote by Alex Garland

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets…

— Quentin Tarantino

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page…

— John Ridley

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my…

— Quentin Tarantino

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision…

— J. J. Abrams

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury