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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.