Bits Quote by Steven Knight

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in…

— Steven Knight

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous -…

— Anthony Holden

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or the execs,…

— IronE Singleton

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one…

— Raymond Chandler

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

— Drew Goddard

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to…

— John Hodgman

“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell books.”

— Debbie Macomber

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as…

— Drew Goddard

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman