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Rod Serling Quote: “Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.”

101. “Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that’s all.”

102. “If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that’s all.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “I don’t know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!”

103. “I don’t know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they’re not that dissimilar.”

104. “The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they’re not that dissimilar.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “I’ve written all that I’ve wanted to write to date.”

105. “I’ve written all that I’ve wanted to write to date.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “In terms of screenwriting adaptations it’s trying to cut out stuff that’s extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That’s why it was bought.”

106. “In terms of screenwriting adaptations it’s trying to cut out stuff that’s extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That’s why it was bought.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “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.”

107. “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.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “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.”

108. “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.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.”

109. “Formerly, a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July, but throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “I don’t have close relationships with agents. They’re friends, but they’re not confidants.”

110. “I don’t have close relationships with agents. They’re friends, but they’re not confidants.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “Seeing does not always believe.”

111. “Seeing does not always believe.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”

112. “Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “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.”

113. “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.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he means he’s quite right. I’m not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I’m going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I’m just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.”

114. “I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he means he’s quite right. I’m not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I’m going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I’m just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “I don’t think it’s man’s function to write. I don’t think it’s a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It’s a supered position on the animal.”

115. “I don’t think it’s man’s function to write. I don’t think it’s a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom. It’s a supered position on the animal.”

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quote: “No audience likes a writer’s opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.”

116. “No audience likes a writer’s opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.”

— Rod Serling

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