Stephen J. Cannell Quotes

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Finding a new couch is a daunting process. New couches are not as soft or deep as you want. I prefer a long, single bench because then it becomes a day bed. These are things that you can buy at a flea market and make exactly what you want.

It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features.

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

First episodes are difficult things to write.

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.