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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer."
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"I don't call myself a writer."
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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy."
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again."
Will
"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
Life
"The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work."
Work
"I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level."
Love
"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
Writer
"Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories."
Funny
"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."
Life
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
Television
"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."
Time
"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."
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