Adaptation Quote by Elmore Leonard

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

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 became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider…

— Nick Cave

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 love writing. When I finish a script, it's a joy to sit down and go all the way through it. It's a very…

— John Hughes

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like…

— Hampton Fancher

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

Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a…

— Amy Holden Jones

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of…

— Daniel Clowes

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel…

— Thomas Mallon

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

— Jonathan Tropper