Books Quote by Ravi Subramanian

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little…

— Ray Bradbury

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I…

— Quentin Tarantino

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a…

— Jane Goldman

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because…

— Deepa Mehta

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel…

— Thomas Mallon

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would…

— Leigh Whannell

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland