There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing! — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. — Rod Serling Copy Share
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated. — Rod Serling Copy Share
I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must… — Rod Serling Copy Share
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. — Rod Serling Copy Share
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete — Rod Serling Copy Share
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. — Rod Serling Copy Share
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing! — Rod Serling Copy Share
I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line… — Rod Serling Copy Share
According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular… — Rod Serling Copy Share
“In his grave, we praise him for his decency - but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own.… — Rod Serling Copy Share
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced… — Rod Serling Copy Share
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence. — Rod Serling Copy Share
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It's a… — Rod Serling Copy Share
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