Book Quote by Diablo Cody

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan

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

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

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

Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating…

— Paul Auster

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

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

— Robert Altman

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

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 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