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Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

Working on being creative in the TV world is endless. It never stops. It's a challenge that never disappears.

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.