“As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.” MeanLyingMorningWorryFourLuckyClockNovelistsAwakeDon't LieI Don't Lie Author:David Nicholls
“I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.” StatesDreamRunningLyingMorningLuckyBedPicksEarsWake UpTheaterMetaphorAwakeWaking Author:Ray Bradbury
“We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.” IfsSaidJobsLyingArtistCultureTroubleCreationLuckyMirrorsInventionOscarsAmerican CultureValidationCanonDay JobsWilde Author:Fady Joudah
“I think we all feel lucky, or at least I feel lucky, to get to be in their [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] movies, and I'm not going to lie, I've nudged them.” ThinkingFeelsLyingLucky Author:David Krumholtz
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.” PeopleKnowsHappensLyingLuckyLowsHappeningsIndiaIslandsCoastSwept Away Author:Margaret Atwood
“Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I've been very, very lucky that I've been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We're supposed to all have that right.” BelieveDreamLyingI BelieveBlackLuckyTransgender Author:Laverne Cox