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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

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

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

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.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

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 screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.