Book Quote by Brian Koppelman

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

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

— Paul Schrader

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over…

— Leigh Whannell

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

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top…

— William Monahan

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

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

— Ian Mcewan

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

— Leon De Winter

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody