Television Screenwriting

🇨🇦Catherine O'Hara

Entertainment

1954–2026

"I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it."

🇺🇸Suzanne Collins

Literature

b. 1962

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

🇬🇧Fay Weldon

Literature

1931–2023

"One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods."

🇺🇸Tess Gerritsen

Medicine

b. 1953

"The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow."

🇬🇧Jeanette Winterson

Literature

b. 1959

"Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago."

🇺🇸Harlan Ellison

Literature

1934–2018

"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other."

🇺🇸Ray Romano

Entertainment

atheism

b. 1957

"I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off."

🇺🇸Wendy Wasserstein

Education

1950–2006

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."

🇺🇸Lynn Nottage

Literature

b. 1964

"My motto when I was writing this was ‘replace judgment with curiosity’."

🇺🇸Sue Grafton

Literature

1940–2017

"Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan."

🇬🇧Laurie Penny

Literature

b. 1986

"Young people growing up with pressure to perform in every aspect of their lives find themselves aping a robotic capitalist eroticism that has little to do with their own legitimate desires."

"He smiled his irresistible smile, but Dora found it highly resistible."

"What I mean, you can’t just go ahead and foist on the consumer some gimmick that potentially could undermine our entire social and economic system. Simply because the consumer wants it."

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them"

🇬🇧Russell T Davies

Medicine

b. 1963

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared."

🇺🇸Rita Mae Brown

Literature

lesbian feminism

b. 1944

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

🇺🇸Leonard Mlodinow

Mathematics

b. 1954

"The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense."

🇮🇳Arundhati Roy

Literature

b. 1961

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability."

🇬🇧Melvyn Bragg

Politics

b. 1939

"I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years."

🇺🇸Jonathan Tropper

Literature

b. 1970

"It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see."

🇬🇧Michael Frayn

Literature

b. 1933

"It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope."