"I'm not a great writer. I'm a great…" — Paddy Chayefsky
"I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter."
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16 Quotes by Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky has 16 quotes on this site.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop…
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers,…
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And…
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken…
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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had…
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Television will do anything for a rating... anything!
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We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined…
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to…
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Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going…
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Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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