Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

Before you make the key, study the lock.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.