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.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.