David E. Kelley Quotations

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

You learn more when things go wrong.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.