a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental..

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull..

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed and important. A….

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing verticall….

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence..

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained..

I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the y….

People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, ….

It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a m….

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all..

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!.

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a supered position ….

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequent….

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease..

I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his ….