I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.