The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.