Now literary success can only be won in solitude by…

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.…

— Louise Erdrich

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in…

— David Levering Lewis

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by…

— Lafcadio Hearn

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

— Emma Donoghue

My literary success meant nothing to me

— Taylor Caldwell

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to…

— Honore de Balzac

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder…

— Juan Somavia

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

— Albert Einstein

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

— Anand Giridharadas

Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor.

— Wes Moore

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a…

— Linda Chavez