My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.