The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.

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.

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