The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.
Michael ConnellyRead
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The speaker feels fortunate and has few regrets about their life choices.
In this quote, Michael Connelly expresses a deep sense of gratitude for his life's circumstances, suggesting that much of his success has been a result of chance rather than deliberate planning. He reflects on his past decisions with little regret, even admitting that he may have been overly protective of his first book, indicating a balance between ambition and acceptance of life's unpredictability.
Themes
FortuneRegretsHappenstanceLifeSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing circumstances, you might quote Connelly's insights on being fortunate.
More from Michael Connelly
All quotes →I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.
Michael ConnellyRead
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
Michael ConnellyRead
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Michael ConnellyRead
You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
Michael ConnellyRead
I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.
Michael ConnellyRead
Similar quotes
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
Jerry GarciaRead
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.
Louise HayRead
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Gloria VanderbiltRead
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
John James AudubonRead
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann LandersRead