"I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level."

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Larry Gelbart

#Writing Quotes #California Quotes #Southern Quotes

“How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.”
“It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.10, New World Library
“My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.”
“Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.”
“Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.”
“Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.”
“Nothing takes you inside the soul of a human being like a musical does.”
“By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.”

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