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I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

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Rod Serling
Age: 50 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 25
Died: 1975
Died: June 28
Film Producer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rodman Edward Serling
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Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
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You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
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I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
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I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.
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I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
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Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.
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If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
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I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.
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Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
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It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.
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If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
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I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
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Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
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You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
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I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
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I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.
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