David E. Kelley Quotes

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• Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
• The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
• The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline.…
• Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
• People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people…
• But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
• But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.
• For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
• I don't think I could write a straight drama.
• I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.
• I never thought of myself as a writer.
• I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.
• I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
• My court skills may have atrophied.
• So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
• The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
• When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually…
• When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
• When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
• You learn more when things go wrong.

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