“I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.” PeopleWayWritingTryingMomentsStoriesWould BeTogetherEnjoyLevelsActingRolesInvolvedLuckyCombinationEntertainingRight WayEnjoying The Moment Author:Anthony Edwards
“I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.” IfsWritingYearsStillsDoneEnoughAgeWantedJobsYoungLuckyGratefulFortunateBe GratefulBad Jobs Author:Richard Flanagan
“Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.” WorldWritingBookMomentsSubjectsEventsHavensLuckyContemporary Author:Nelson DeMille
“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."” WritingRealCharacterDarkWhiteRaceSeaLuckyConsciousContinentsOutsidersPortugueseMain Characters Author:Jon Weisman
“When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.” WritingArtStillsBigsLeftWaitingPaySupportFiguresHugeHabitLuckyBillsTheatre Author:Debra Dean
“One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity.” PeopleIfsWritingHas BeensBookEyeMovingEasyEnjoyActingNiceStageLuckyConstantMeetingsLecturesEnjoyableNice ThingsFrightPublic EyeStage Fright Author:Debra Dean
“Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingImportantSongEnjoyLuckyImportant ThingsCatharsis Author:Ellie Goulding
“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.” KnowsWritingSufferingLuckyDelightGreat WorkChores Author:Denise Duhamel
“I've gotten a lot of exposure for my writing. My writing blog has gotten over 1000 unique hits since the Observer piece (quite a lot as before it was something like 20 people a day if I was lucky.) But more importantly the coverage exposed me to and so has allowed me to connect with a lot of new people I really enjoy interacting with.” PeopleIfsWritingEnjoyPiecesLuckyUniqueExposedObserversExposureBlogsCoverageInteracting Author:Marie Calloway
“When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.” WritingEnoughLostLuckyGood Writing Author:Nestor Carbonell
“I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them.” PeopleWritingBelieveWellsPersonsStillsCertainPartyKnownCrazyMetsLuckyPhotographerDinnerInsaneInvitesMentorPortraitsWell KnownJasonSo LuckyDinner Party Author:Winona Ryder
“I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.” WayWritingRememberLucky Author:Benjamin Clementine
“The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.” WritingDifferentDoneUsedStuffRocksProduceIndustryLuckyBandSingersUsed To BeSongwritersSoloMusic IndustryRock BandsGood Bands Author:James Iha
“When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.” IfsWritingYearsLastsHoursWeekCoupleLuckyNormalEightSixtyWork Week Author:Sandra Cisneros
“When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingMeanHappensPastFacesParticularLuckyAnxietyComputerSittingSmile On My FaceThinking About The Past Author:Maria Semple
“We're so lucky to be living in this day and age when technology - the tools to tell our stories - is so accessible. However, content still reigns supreme. So find your voice, your unique voice, it's there inside of you. Find it, define it, write it down on paper, hone it, and clarify it. Everything else is just technology which will help you tell your story.” WritingStillsHelpingStoriesAgeVoiceTechnologyLuckyPaperUniqueToolsSupremeThis DayReignSo LuckyUnique Voices Author:Ramona S. Diaz
“I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMeanFeelingsEarthLuckyLonelyClimateClimate ChangeLuxuryConfusedFeeling Lonely Author:Jim James
“I'm working with fragments a lot of the time and the connective tissue isn't there yet. I think of it the way comics work. You have a block here and a block here, and there's this white space in between. Somehow your mind makes the leap to connect those two blocks. Finding a way to trick your mind into connecting those blocks is one of the fun things for me about writing. You can have those leaps that will emerge into something, if you're lucky.” ThinkingWritingMindFunLuckyBlockLeap Author:Dan Chaon
“I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.” PeopleWritingRealEnoughCharacterDreamTearsLuckyWorthyNervousGutsDislikeMaking Up Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
“I never dreamed about being on a hit television series. I've never really related my dreams to that specific of a work goal. I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With "E.R." we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.” PeopleWritingTryingMomentsDreamTogetherEnjoyGoalActingLucky Author:Anthony Edwards
“Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.” WritingSometimesEnoughCareFilmLuckyGet Involved Author:Renny Harlin
“As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.” WritingBreakLuckyTough Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bérard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honoré by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.” PeopleThinkingWritingSpiritMagicFashionLuckyWindowSpontaneousNostalgicFrivolity Author:Ines de La Fressange
“Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a student and not become a model, and becoming a doctor was another one of my dreams. I had a choice between not becoming a singer or becoming a songwriter and writing behind the scenes; nobody would have seen me writing songs for other people. I had the choice of not marrying my man; we could have just been hidden lovers, but I couldn't cope with it. I had these choices to do all these things, so I'm not going to cry over a life which has been really lucky.” PeopleMenWritingDreamSongChoicesCryStudentsLoversSceneLucky Author:Carla Bruni
“I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I have married a man who is simply the grownup version of my first love. So, I believe my first love was just preparing me for the man I'm married to today. And it has also impacted the way I write, because there will always be a love story in every movie I write. Always! I think having a positive first love experience before the heartbreak made me a more confident in who I am, a more confident female today.” ThinkingMenWritingBelieveHeartEnoughTodayI BelieveHe ManLuckyMarriedFemaleAffairLove StoryDramaticFirst LoveTeenageLove AffairGrownupsVery Romantic Author:Amma Asante
“I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute parasite. While I was writing my book on comparative philosophy I was drawing on some fantastic scholars - university based people. The academy is absolutely necessary, but there should also be a role for those bringing it together. It's such a frustration sometimes.” PeopleWritingBookSometimesPhilosophyTogetherLuckyFantasticFrustrationScholar Author:Julian Baggini
“The key is you have to keep doing the right thing. Do the right thing and stay around long enough, and you'll keep getting parts. And if you don't, you write your own parts, which I'm lucky to do. It's like anything else: you get hot, you get cold, then you get hot again. You just keep working.” WritingLongEnoughColdLuckyHotRight ThingDoing The Right ThingWrite Your Own Author:Chazz Palminteri
“When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingRealTodayEasyAudiencePathLuckyJournalismHopefullyBrokeLucky You Author:Anthony DeCurtis
“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.” WritingBookEnoughReadingCarLuckyComputerProgramHolidayNotebook Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite as freely again. You're aware, from that point onward, of the kinds of things critics might say about it. You're aware of the kinds of things your publishers might like and dislike about it. You're half-aware of marketing strategies - of all the stuff around the book. Whereas with your very first piece of fiction, if you're lucky, those things barely occur to you at all.” WritingKindBookLuckyGratefulStrategyCriticsMarketingHorribleGreat ThingsDislikePublishing Author:Nick Laird
“I feel lucky. I do love it, mostly. At college I had it in my heart that I wanted to be a writer but I didn't want to tell anyone about it. Then I graduated and became a bartender in Philadelphia, writing during the day. I was the worst bartender in the world.” WorldWritingHeartWorstCollegeMy HeartLuckyBartender Author:Lauren Groff
“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.” PeopleWritingEnoughSongSituationCoupleLuckyInspiredTrackPop Song Author:Hailee Steinfeld
“If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.” IfsWritingNovelProgressStageLuckyVariousFoolishness Book:Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel