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"Television is a young person's medium."
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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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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"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."
Attention
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
Chance
"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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"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
Books
"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
"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
Books
"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"Writing is a solitary occupation."
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"Television is a young person's medium."
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