Being Quote by Thomas Mallon

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying…

— Elmore Leonard

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

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

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

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

— Quentin Tarantino

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like…

— Hampton Fancher

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions…

— Ravi Subramanian

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything…

— Salman Rushdie

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please…

— Elmore Leonard

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

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