I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

When you are not needed, you are not needed. Period!

Forget about lien about you behind your back and talking nonsense, some people can lie to you looking in your eyes...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that _ the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that o