“… if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.”
Bret Easton Ellis book Imperial Bedrooms
Source: Imperial Bedrooms
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“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”
Fay Weldon (1931) English author, essayist and playwright
Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]
“A painter can leave you with nothing left to say. A writer leaves you with everything to say.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
'Georg Christoph Lichtenberg', p. 405
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
Pt. 2, Ch. 3 - p.97
Giovanni's Room (1956)
“Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.”
Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire
Source: The Throne of Fire
“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Context: The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
