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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."

"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."

"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."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."

"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."

"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."

"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."

"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."

"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."

"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."

"Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one."
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