To Succeed, We Must First Believe That

Numbers Of Sales Do Not Correspond To Numbers Of Readers.

Curiosity Is The Best Motive For Writing: Curiosity About The World At Large, Or About Oneself.

The American System Demands Success, And In Order To Succeed We Must First Believe That We Can. Yet Our Society, With Its Intolerance Of Failure And Poverty, Traps Millions Of People In Positions Where Any Kind Of Success Seems Impossible To Contemplate, And In Which Failure Itself Is A Kind Of Passive Rebellion Against Their Own Misery And The Social System Which Created It In The First Place. To Succeed It Is Necessary To Accept The World As It Is And Rise Above It.

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.

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.