Can do Quote by Phyllis A. Whitney

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

— Gore Vidal

Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

It's too bad that television needs so much material and does not leave time for quality writing. That's one of the things I have…

— Lorne Greene

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to…

— Austin Butler

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder…

— Michaela Coel

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot…

— Tina Fey

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that…

— Ben Bass

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and…

— Stephen King

TV is the place that writers want to be.

— Ayelet Zurer

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

— Peter Morgan

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

— Avi