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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
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 Image
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. — 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 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
