The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

When it comes to creating compelling fiction, the devil may be in the details, but it is your imagination that ultimately allows your work to spread its wings and take flight. And fly it must. Only by soaring above the clouds of doubt can one truly achieve a suspension of disbelief