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"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."
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"Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal."
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"Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations."
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"Don't be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only."
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"To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love."
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"To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations."
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"Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness."
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"Be bold, be a success, and change the world."
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"What you do without expectations defines your success."
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"You are the child of this universe, you have the right to success and peace."
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"Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important."
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"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."
Success
"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."
People
"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."
Experience
"I've never shown anybody a draft of anything."
Writing
"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home."
Home
"I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume."
Writing
"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."
Leadership
"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action."
Man
"If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing."
Writing
"I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose."
Poetry
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