Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
Autism is part of who I am.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
I've worked with tons of people that I know who are on the spectrum - but now I think severe autism has really increased.
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.
I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.
