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There are notes between notes, you know.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

There's so much of this thing now, where you're supposed to do all the work before you get the commission. I think it's really good to try to resist that. If you just have a week to come up with a pitch for something, your ideas aren't going to be very good. Get your income from somewhere else, and keep your writing not tied into these contracts.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.