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.
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
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.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
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.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
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.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
