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

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

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

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

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

I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

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 understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

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.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.