“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.”
“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”
“Before I sold used cars, I sold used horses. Mostly to glue factories.”
“i like buying anything that seems like it had a good story before it came to me”
“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.”
“The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.”