Books Quote by Gene Hackman

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies…

— Manuel Puig

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a…

— Dan Gilroy

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

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

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've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of…

— Alice Hoffman

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

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