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2009

But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings in television. They want to sustain the franchise. But if you don't write an ending for a story, you know what you are? You're a hack. You're not a storyteller. It may not be that you have the skills of a hack. You might be a hell of a writer, but you're taking a hack's road. You're on the road to hackdom and there's no stopping you because stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

David Simon

# 22nd December 2009, 10:52 am / david-simon, stories, thewire, tv