British Quote by Simon Beaufoy

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess…

— Matt Haig

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top…

— William Monahan

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see…

— Alex Garland

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

— Claire Messud

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

— Ian Mcewan

I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have…

— Jesse Andrews

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

— Jonathan Tropper

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan