“And I said, I don’t know any editor. The only editor I’ve ever heard of is Jacqueline Onassis, and he said, she might be interested in this. And so he submitted the proposal to her…and that was it. The first time I went to her...
“With your drafts, be ruthless. What do you need? What can you toss away? And then read everything out loud. Because the way you read it versus the way it sounds… it’s a different experience and you catch things that you wouldn’t catch when you...
“…try to set up meetings and appointments with people. And through those meetings and appointments, you’re going to learn different things they’re working on or dealing with, and that’s going to broaden your horizons and allow you to...
“Well, perseverance conquers, first of all. So you have to have that..figure out a way to get in… be a good, dependable person in everything that you do and bring all your life experiences to it. You know, work hard, and just be open to all the...
“But I think the trick to it is that you’ve got to write every day, and you’ve got to be disciplined about it. You can’t skip a day because I’m without a doubt prone to procrastination, as indicated by my ten years in between my first and...
