As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.

I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.