Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4
Jace to Imogen, pg. 303
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4
“That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Unleashed
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”
Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer
Source: Sweethearts
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Ali Smith book How to Be Both
Source: How to Be Both
“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian