Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at 1950s, 1960s… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share
