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

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

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

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

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.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

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.