Lucky Stevens > Lucky's Quotes

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.”
― Adam Carolla, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination.”
― Lucky Stevens

“In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― Andre Gide

“People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?”
― Anne Meara

“...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.”
― Entertainment Weekly

“Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”
― Mickey Spillane

“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change for anything.”
― Nicole Huggins

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.”
― Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist