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Television has raised writing to a new low.
-Samuel Goldwyn
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Television Has Raised Writing To A New

Samuel Goldwyn
Television has raised writing to a new low.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. but it hasn't been in the same form. i used to write scripts for television. i wrote for my comedy act. then i wrote screenplays, and then i started writing new yorker essays, and then i started writing plays. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the new yorker essays, but they were comic. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. in my head, there was a link between everything. one thing led to another.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
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Essentially, the scripts are not that different. let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. in live television, you wrote much more vertically. you had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. so you generally probed people a little bit more. film writing is much more horizontal. you can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the taj mahal, a cast of thousands. but essentially, writing a story is writing a story.
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When you watch television, you never see people watching television. we love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon twitter has raised writing to a new low.
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Most people aren't raised to be hated. we're all raised to be loved. we want to be loved. we're told to do things to be loved and appreciated and liked. we're raised, don't offend anybody, be nice. everybody wants total acceptance. everybody wants respect. everybody wants to be loved, and so when you learn that what you do is going to engender hatred you have to learn to accept that as a sign of success.
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