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.
You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.
Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.