“Sometimes,” he said, “I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Deepsix (2001), Chapter 22 (p. 327)
On rediscovering his huge collection of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan posters he had as a teenager <br class="br">Mayer, John (October 4, 2007). "Proof" http://blog.honeyee.com/john/archives/2006/10/04/index.html Honeyee.com. Retrieved September 4, 2007
“Sometimes,” he said, “I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Deepsix (2001), Chapter 22 (p. 327)
Julie Anne Peters book Keeping You a Secret
Source: Keeping You a Secret
Mary Renault book The Charioteer
Source: The Charioteer (1953), p. 285
Context: You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets so that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.
“Sometimes Hen… I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: Minx
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author
On his writing process in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists