Rod Serling on Ideas & Writing

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Comment by Oliver Michael Harris 1 day ago

Writers can surely seldom say this or that word was a crux. Writing is more like life, a fox trot: slow, slow, quick quick, slow.

Comment by Joseph Grant on October 31, 2009 at 10:50pm

This is phenomenal. The person the great Mr. Serling is referring to is Hemingway. "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Comment by Vicki S. Nikolaidis on October 23, 2009 at 6:11am

Writing for television must be torture sometimes.

Comment by Leon Jackson Davenport on October 22, 2009 at 11:44pm

Good clip. He was a very special writer. Time to go bleed a little.

Comment by TooraLee on September 26, 2009 at 12:17am

I'd heard it all before until his last statement. What a fantastic analogy - I really like it.