Atmosphere Quote by John Irving

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most…

— Nicholas Meyer

Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a…

— Michael Landon, Jr

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding…

— John Irving

The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the…

— John Irving

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction…

— John Irving

I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the magic out…

— Todd Farmer

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

— Alan Moore

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

— Augusten Burroughs

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the…

— William Gibson