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"It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
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"Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time."
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"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it."
"The question you should be asking isn't, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'"
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