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

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

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.

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

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

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.