Experts Quote by Jeff Ross

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

— Jon Spaihts

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with…

— Josh Elliott

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job…

— Billy Eichner

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful…

— Anjelica Huston

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.

— William Monahan

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

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