Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael KordaThe first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
Michael KordaThe 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.
Michael KordaMale chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
Michael Korda