Books Quote by William Monahan

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

— Diablo Cody

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out…

— William Monahan

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

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less…

— Nick Antosca

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

— Meg Cabot

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

— Gillian Flynn

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

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