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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

Aaron Sorkin

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

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