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

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

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.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

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

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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.