Early Writing Attempts Quotes

#1. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

William Gibson

#2. I am a lot of things, not all of them noble.

Libba Bray

#3. If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

David Shore

#4. Aronson split off to go back to work on

Michael Connelly

#5. I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

Peter Gabriel

#6. He looked like himself, Eleanor thought, but bolder. Like Park with the volume turned way up.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

August Wilson

#8. It used to be that the big eat the small; now it's the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.

Daniel Burrus