Assuming Quote by Richard Russo

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

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

— Elmore Leonard

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

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

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really…

— Edward Burns

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most…

— Nicholas Meyer

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside…

— Ruth Jones