Quotes About Achievement

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.

I think my very best work came out when I was about 60, not when I was 20. I was publishing all the time when I was in my 20s, and some of those poems I still like. And there were a few after 60, and in my 70s, that I like. But they became fewer and fewer.

Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher or a publishing model; I didn't really think about it, but then, somehow, it worked out in my favor.

For a passer that's probably the key, having the Jonathan Cheechoos, the Glen Murrays, the Joe Pavelskis, the Patty Marleaus, the list goes on and on and on the guys that I've played with over the years who put the puck in the back of the net.

The proof is in the pudding. If you put your mind and hard work and prayer into what you do, it will happen.

I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.

I had been successful in Japan, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, but nothing in the U.S. where it really matters.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.