A Quote by George Sand

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

George Sand

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George Sand
French - Novelist
July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

Jim Rohn

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Steve Backley

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

William Faulkner

Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

Yuna

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

Jim Rohn

Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.

Hiromi

It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel.' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.

Norman Mailer

Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.

Bruce Lee

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Tama Janowitz

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.