Collaborative effort Quote by Meg Cabot

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see…

— Alex Garland

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal…

— David Nicholls

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

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

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to…

— Jonathan Raymond

Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how…

— Sriram Raghavan

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

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do…

— Justin Zackham

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.

— Ruth Jones

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn