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

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

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.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

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.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.