America Quote by Tony Kushner

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 don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— Jess Walter

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have…

— Jennifer Weiner

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film…

— Abi Morgan

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in…

— Justin Cronin

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to…

— Beau Willimon

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

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens