“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ”

“I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.”

“Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.”

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”

“I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.”

“The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”