“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.”

“One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.”

“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.”

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.”

“Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!”

“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”

“I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.”

“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

“The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.”

“There's no abiding success without commitment.”

“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”

“First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.”