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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Luck always favors those who are bold."
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities."
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"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
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"Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler."
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
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"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
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"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
Self
"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
Heroism
"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
Creativity
"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."
Thought
"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
Life
"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
Science
"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
Thought
"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
Life
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