Always Quote by Jonathan Ames

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on…

— Michael Mann

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a novel would…

— Harry Enfield

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

— Mel Gibson

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

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

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

— Simon Beaufoy

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta

I have always loved writing as it comes very naturally to me.

— Mukul Dev

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

— Hank Azaria

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai