Band Quote by Diablo Cody

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

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were…

— Aaron Sorkin

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside…

— Ruth Jones

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

— Diablo Cody

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

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

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

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman