Fame and success are very different things.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those you're being deprived of something.

Success in whatever form it takes is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal then what? Where do you aim?

Success comes to a writer as a rule so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Well I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

For me I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

You may lose your wife you may lose your dog your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

I think that everybody in the world whatever colour or creed has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father uncle cousin or brother everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

All business success rests on something labeled a sale which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

If there is any secret to my success I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel and therefore I think my readers care about them.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece anywhere is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

I was if you like a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success than a hundred percent of nothing.

When everything happens to you when you're so young you're very lucky but by the same token you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love your first success - the second one is never the same.