"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."

-- Robert Sheckley

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.”
“Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.”
“I love my music and recording people.”

Source : "5-10-15-20: Edwyn Collins". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.
“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”
“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldnâ€™t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.”

Source : "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.
“...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.”

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