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It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

It's hard writing screenplays.

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

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.

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.

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.

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

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

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.