If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

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.

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.