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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.