Books Quote by Richard Russo

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

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

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

— Ridley Scott

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

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

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

— Anoop Menon

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

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it…

— Salman Rushdie

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking…

— Robert Towne

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