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The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy…

— Daryl Gregory

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

— Demi Moore

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers,…

— Joanna Russ

When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had…

— Walter Russell

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want,…

— David Haye

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first…

— Ian Rankin

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew…

— Gloria Steinem

After winning the U.S. Open, for the first time I felt like I could actually live in that moment a little bit. The main…

— Iga Swiatek

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further,…

— Christian Hosoi

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

The spotlight was on me. I pretended it wasn't, but it was, and for every wrong reason. It was all about money, it was…

— Shane Black