Book Quote by Alice Hoffman

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I…

— Miranda July

My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer…

— Callie Khouri

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

— Stephan Pastis

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for…

— Benicio Del Toro

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in…

— Justin Cronin

I don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in…

— David Lowery

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks