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 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.

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

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

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

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.