I started writing prose before I started writing…

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start.…

— Simon Schama

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about…

— George Mastras

Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments…

— Steven C. Harper

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

— Bill Mumy

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the…

— David E. Kelley

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

— Vince Gilligan

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is…

— Frank Deford

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that…

— Ben Bass

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a…

— Mindy Kaling

When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone…

— Robert Kirkman

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so…

— Eileen Myles

I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is…

— Bryan Singer

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is…

— James Patterson

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign…

— Al Franken

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

— Peter Morgan