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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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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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"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
Trust
"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
Architecture
"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."
Time
"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."
Care
"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
Want
"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."
People
"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
Now
"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."
Time
"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
Being
"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."
Age
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