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I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

— Jane Espenson

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Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way.

I will not listen to childcare lectures from a man who put his daughter in a box and shipped her to Maine.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it’s largely oddball stuff … Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

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Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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