Try not to write the parts that people skip.
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
Avoid prologues: they can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.