#Fame

"The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day."

"Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms."

"Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on."

"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."

"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"

"God rewards every act of obedience to His Will."

"The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."

"I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me."

"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."

"I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame."

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

"One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

"I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up"

"Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."