The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What’s the difference? Publishing isn’t the highest art.
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!
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
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.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don’t want to read.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
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.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.