Books Quote by Thomas Keneally

It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

— Brian Koppelman

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

— Charlie Kaufman

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

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

— Jonathan Tropper

I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are…

— Simon Beaufoy

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

— Ian Mcewan

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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