Writer Quotes

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

I was raised on NBC television.

I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

I really like performing for people.

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.