I Choose To Think Of Tv Audience

Every Writer Is A Frustrated Actor Who Recites His Lines In The Hidden Auditorium Of His Skull.

I Don't Have Any System. I Dictate A Lot, Through A Machine, And I Also Have A Secretary. But I Used To Type Just Like Everybody Else.

In Eleven Or Twelve Years Of Writing, Mike, I Can Lay Claim To At Least This: I Have Never Written Beneath Myself. I Have Never Written Anything That I Didn't Want My Name Attached To. I Have Probed Deeper In Some Scripts And I've Been More Successful In Some Than Others. But All Of Them That Have Been On, You Know, I'll Take My Lick. They're Mine And That's The Way I Wanted Them.

I Remember The First Sale I Made Was A Hundred And Fifty Dollars For A Radio Script, And, As Poor As I Was, I Didn't Cash The Check For Three Months. I Kept Showing It To People.

I Just Want People To Remember Me A Hundred Years From Now. I Don't Care That They're Not Able To Quote Any Single Line That I've Written. But Just That They Can Say, "oh, He Was A Writer." That's Sufficiently An Honored Position For Me.