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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 writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"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
"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
"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
Politics
"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
Change
"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
"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
"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."
Business
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
Work
"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
Opinion
"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
Popularity
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