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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone…

— Alan Ball

On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show.…

— Tracy Morgan

Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments…

— Steven C. Harper

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at…

— Sasha Roiz

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

— Yancy Butler

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

— Molly Shannon

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on…

— Julian Barratt

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what…

— Max Brooks

The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though,…

— Fernando Torres

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

— Steve Erickson

When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then…

— Lori Petty

There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s…

— Louis C. K