End Quote by Nick Hornby

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— Charlie Kaufman

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

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— Diablo Cody

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

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

I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much…

— Simon Kinberg

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate…

— Oren Peli

When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a…

— Michael Connelly

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard

We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's…

— John Francis Daley

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— Leigh Whannell

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

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