Screenwriting 101: Don Winslow

“I’m not one of those novelists who looks at screenwriting as a lesser form — it’s an extremely demanding art that requires incredible creativity… But the two forms have such different needs — the clock is always running on a screenplay — you have to compress scenes and characters. In a novel, a chapter can do just one thing if you want, in a screenplay a scene has to do several things at once — move the story forward and develop character. It’s also kinetic — experienced in a continuum, while the reader of a novel can pick the book up, set it down, and pick it back up again. So the experiences were very different.”

— Don Winslow

From Go Into The Story interview, June 25, 2015