People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.