The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

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.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The 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.

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.