Life Quote by David Simon

For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your…

— Stephanie Savage

“Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start…

— Sharyn McCrumb

TV is the place that writers want to be.

— Ayelet Zurer

You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm only kind of interested in to…

— Lynn Coady

I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at…

— Nick Antosca

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is…

— Douglas Adams

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in…

— Vince Gilligan

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

— Rory Bremner

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and…

— Brian Baumgartner

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

— Judd Apatow

When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience.…

— Tanya Saracho