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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

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 screenplay.

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.