Quotes

The characters I write about are prototypes of people I have known, and the situations are those I either have experienced or heard about.

[on not working by a set schedule]: I just pick a good idea and round it out.

One night I got an idea at 11 o'clock and by 8 the next morning the half-hour script was finished. The first time I did a full-hour script, didn't take long-three days. But, the second one took me a week. The more I know about script writing, the more I care I put into it.

Writing for television is like writing captions, the only difference is that for TV the picture is in your mind instead of laid out in front of you.

One kind of play I don't turn out is a situation comedy about family life, the average family just isn't funny. you have to distort characters too much.

Any day that I can't sell a television script, I know that there's a newspaper copy-desk somewhere that can use a copy-reader. The only thing I worry about is the day when I take this television writing seriously.