Lawrence Block Quotes

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

There is always room for coincidence.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.