A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Which one is the truth, sir?Which period do you mean, son?

Had we but world enough, and time...

Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

Is that what you meant when you said the more you love a person the harder your heart breaks?

We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.