Quotes About Uncertainty

I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

To be honest, before the American publication of 'The Three-Body Problem', I prepared myself for the possibility of uniformly negative reviews.

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.

People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

I didn't know who I was writing for initially. I assumed 'Miss Peregrine' was for adults, because I was an adult - but I didn't know much about publishing back then.

I was only a young whippersnapper at that point. I was in pubs playing Barry Manilow songs. I didn't know what to expect.

I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you.

I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

When people claim that they know the formula or the pulse of the public... it's rubbish, the truth is that no one knows.

Even if things are going well, I'm always thinking that I'm about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and - psych! - I'll find out that it's all falling apart.

You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

Anything can happen in the Octagon, so of course, we all want to win, but I know it's a sport, so one punch can make you lose.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

Sometimes the world is just weird and you have to just roll with the punches.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.