Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Genius is 1 percent Inspirational, 99 percent perspiration.

Being a writer is 1% Inspirational, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more Inspirational.

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent Inspirational. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.

Genius is one percent Inspirational, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Inspirational is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.

Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration obviously perspiration doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.