Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. . . . George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.