Dues Quote by Stephen Chbosky

It's hard writing screenplays.

— Ridley Scott

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

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really happy writing…

— Leigh Whannell

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

— Peter Hedges

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

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

— Quentin Tarantino

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

— William Goldman