From a reader:

Don’t know if you saw it, but Frank Luntz’s new book quotes the “brilliant” Sorkin in the Introduction saying the following:
“What I do is every bit as manipulative as some magician doing a magic trick. If I can wave this red silk handkerchief enough in my right hand, I can do whatever I want with my left hand and you’re not going to see it. When you’re writing fiction, everything is manipulation. I’m setting up the situation specifically so that you’ll laugh at this point or cry at this point or be nervous at this point. If you can see how I’m sawing the lady in half, then it’s bad manipulation. If you can’t see how I did that, then it’s good.” With Studio 60 all I see are ladies with fake legs getting sawed in half.