Somewhere Between Apathy And Anarchy Lies The

The Most Important Thing About The First Sale Is For The Very First Time In Your Life Something Written Has Value And Proven Value Because Somebody Has Given You Money For The Words That You've Written, And That's Terribly Important, It's A Tremendous Boon To The Ego, To Your Sense Of Self-reliance, To Your Feeling About Your Own Talent.

You Could Do Much More In Movies Than You Could On Tv, And Even Movies Were Heavily Censored. But In Television, The Areas Of Timorousness Were Fairly Laid Out. Race Relations. Sex. Politics. There Was A Whole Conglomeration Of Taboo Themes. And Even To Date, Though Television Has Become A Much Freer Medium, It's Still Far Less Free, Far Less Creatively Untrammeled Than Are The Movies. They're Infinitely More Adult In That Respect.

You Can Be A Hunchback And A Dwarf And What-all. If You Write Beautifully, You Can Write Beautifully.

The Tendency When You Dictate Is To Overwrite, Because You're Not Counting Pages, You Don't Really Know What The Hell The Page Count Is.

If You Want To Prove That God Is Not Dead, First Prove That Man Is Alive.