#rite

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#good #good ones #lot #ones #sitcoms

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.' ↗

— John Sayles

#fall #figured #had #horse #i

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente. ↗

— John Sayles

#being #grew #i #know #learned

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. ↗

— John Sayles

#know #really #screenwriter #stories #such

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. ↗

— John Sayles

#corman #day #get #going #made

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' ↗

— John Sayles

#character #day #dialogue #feel #get

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#bobby #bobby kennedy #both #both sides #courage

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#angry person #easy #i #i write #lawyer

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#because #carrier #could #curve #hit