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"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"Writing is a solitary occupation."
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"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
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"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
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