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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I've just learned on the fly.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.