All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?