TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the…

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

— Patti Harrison

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the…

— Julie Plec

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

— Roger Avary

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

— Stephen J. Cannell

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

— Matthew Weiner

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I…

— Jonathan Ames

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

— Maria Semple

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

— Charlie Brooker

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

— Tanya Saracho

With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change…

— Ruth Jones

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

— Shonda Rhimes