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“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.”

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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

“The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.”

Ifs Real Pieces Objects Truth Is Luck Mere Conviction Grounded Real Things

Book:Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

Source: Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)

“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”

Knows Waiting Business Know How Pieces Skills Luck Guides Good Luck Luck And Skill

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.”

Ifs Needs Pieces Higher Luck Get Away Higher Ground

Author:George Saunders

“I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.”

Running Pieces Fate Effects Luck Fortune Ill Stores Artistic Lap Good Fortune Dropping Phenomenal Sequels

Book:Impressions that remained

Source: Impressions that remained

“The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.”

Born Pieces Luck Misfortunes Bad Luck

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.”

Ifs Pieces Luck Fortune Destroyed Paradise Good Fortune Expulsion

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.”

Knows Pieces Luck Delightful Good Luck Nobody Knows Sly

Author:Publilius Syrus

“How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.”

People World Looks Whole Reality Wanted Lord Pieces Tears Husband Clothes Blame Luck Karma Clever Whole World Cunning Facade

Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN