Firsts Quote by Douglas Adams

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

— Douglas Adams

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion.…

— Sandra Brown

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far…

— Richard Dawkins

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of…

— Bob Kane

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

— Daniel Handler

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second…

— Len Deighton

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later…

— Piers Anthony

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history -…

— Tim Minchin

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion,…

— Sandra Brown

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line…

— Laura Hillenbrand

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written,…

— Norton Juster

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course…

— Dwayne Johnson