Books Quote by Miranda July

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

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of…

— Peter Gould

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 don't think I'm the best screenwriter in the world. It's just important to me to write my movies so I'm personally invested in…

— David Lowery

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an…

— Alice Hoffman

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about…

— Charles Stross

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

— Ricky Gervais

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon