Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

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

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

— John Irving

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

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

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

Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly…

— Kyle Mooney

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design…

— Robin Hobb

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

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

— Ridley Scott