219 Quotes by Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.