Firsts Quote by Alan Menken

First episodes are difficult things to write.

— Michael Hirst

It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth…

— Liza Dalby

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the…

— Sophia Bush

At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could…

— Paul Rust

I'm not one of those stand ups that's going to write a show about a big subject or try and tell you about the…

— Josh Widdicombe

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

— Robert Frost

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't really outline. I just kind of know where I'm going in my head, so I'll write and discover it for myself. Or…

— Sam Levinson

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

— Dick Latvala

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put…

— Chris Claremont