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But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

— Beth Henley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.

— Grant Heslov

Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.

— John Gregory Dunne

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.

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Quentin Tarantino

Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

— Watt Key

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

— Bruce Vilanch

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

— William Goldman

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

— Beverly Lewis

I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners.

— Sherwood Schwartz