Books Quote by Gillian Flynn

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

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

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

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

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

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

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

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

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber

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