‘Someone once said, “Praise is always personal; rejection almost never is”. It might have been me that said it, but it seems too profound and wise to have originated in my head.’
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‘For every play performed, script broadcast or book published, there comes another, very public, rejection: the bad review.’
‘Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can learn from it…’
‘The unwritten play becomes so tantalisingly wonderful, surprising, profound: — why spoil its hypothetical brilliance by encasing it in specific words? ‘