You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.
Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as well, it's like reinventing the wheel every time. I have no idea what I'm doing writing a novel, and in some ways, it's the only way to do it.
Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.