“Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
“What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
“There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”
“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative where other writers will.”