“The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.” FeelsI CanMatterEnoughFactsResponsibilityReaderLuckyResponsibleTruthfulOlivesSense Of Responsibility Author:Elizabeth Strout
“I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.” MenJobsEvilAcceptingReaderBattleLuckyExpectationsPressureCoalRelentlessStressfulDeadlineMiningNecessary Evil Author:Grant Morrison
“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.” PeopleLittlesBookDifferentStoriesReadingChanceReaderLuckySixPagesOrdinaryLonelyMarkTwentiesAccomplishBoredDifferent PeoplesBook ReadingDifferent PlaceAlphabetOrdinary LifeReading Stories Author:Natalie Babbitt
“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.” IfsHappensSexWomenLibertyVirtueWiseCrimeReaderLuckyGood ThingsDeniedForbiddenBeing Wise Author:Marie de Gournay
“The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.” PeopleDoeHandsReadingPleasureClearTroubleReaderLuckyAssumingAttributesSuperficialPreciseZealUnluckyUnclear Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.” FirstsInterestReaderLuckyRoundsCome UpExcited Author:Alexis Ohanian
“The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.” StoriesReadingLiteratureCasesNovelReaderLuckyCuriousOpen Minded Author:Amos Oz
“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.” InspirationalWantedStruggleSawsTeacherStudentsReaderLucky Author:Ann Bancroft