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"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
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"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"
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"Good night, and good luck."
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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."
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"...luck is not to be coerced."
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"Luck always favors those who are bold."
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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten."
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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
Creativity
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
Comedy
"I will say I am the sum of my books."
Books
"All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there."
Life
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
Business
"The world is always in movement."
World
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
Man
"The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness."
Literature
"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
People
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