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.

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.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

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

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

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.