Book Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

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

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

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

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions…

— Ravi Subramanian

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

— Diablo Cody

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

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell