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"Scripts are about doing. Books are about being."
For me, the difference between writing for TV and writing books comes down to the difference between me and my father. Not in a Freudian sense - which applies to every writer in every discipline - but in the pursuit of my writing-as-sports-analogy as applicable to my early writing career when I had to choose between putting the bulk of my writing efforts into scripts or books.
My natural inclination (long distance swimmer) suggested books, but ... my wife, Brigitte, and I had a baby on the way and, in theory, script writing promised to generate income faster. So, I asked Dad what internal judo move he'd utilized on his team-player mentality that allowed him to triumph in a string of solo efforts to heroically win State.
Dad said, "Ah, it's all athletics. Just throw your body at it as hard as you can."
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'And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.'