Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.