“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.” WritingBelieveEndsBitsProcessFictionPiecesProduceArgumentLuckNervousControlledWorthwhileBreakdownNervous Breakdown Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel
“When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.” YearsLittlesWould BeAbleBitsTalentPersonalityLittle BitPercentYears AgoLuckOddPercentages Author:Roger Moore
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.” I CanRememberCertainBitsSoundFiveFootballAmountLuckCreditManagersSoccerAfternoonIrelandChairmanKevinPintsGuinness Author:Steve Coppell
“I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesBitsNumbersBehindsKeysLittle BitEthicsLuckWork EthicBehind YouMind Set Author:Jordin Sparks
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth
“There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.” PeopleWishBitsTheoryLuckDancingLovelyHornsGood LuckEscapismUnapologetic Author:Cherie Lunghi