Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.