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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I think all writing is done through memory.

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.