By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Free labor will win.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.
Every now and then you dig a dry hole.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.
You can't write something to please someone.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget your name as soon as they walk out.
You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'
On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.
At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.
I've been slogging ever since I was 10. Yet, when I come home there's not a kind word I get to hear from my family.
People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.
I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.
I know people don't think I work.
