Definition of "screenwriter" []

• One who writes screenplays. (noun)

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• "Somewhere, a screenwriter is already hard at work on treatment that can only be described as, “Jurassic Park meets The Hot Zone!”"
• "Being a screenwriter is at times extraordinarily gratifying, at times extraordinarily frustrating."
• "No one would have guessed at the time that this spoof, pitting a bubbly Valley Girl against a clan of vampires (led by the formidable Rutger Hauer), would spawn a cultural phenomenon in screenwriter Joss Whedon's hit TV series, and its multiple spinoffs."