“If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
“If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.”
“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.”
“Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.”
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”