- Robert McKee
- Michael Burke
- Stan Lee
- Dan Poynter
- Chris Claremont
- Thomas Wolfe
- William Shawn
- Michael Crichton
- Jim Morrison
- Edward Albee
- Sherman Reilly Duffy
- Arthur Balfour
- G.K. Chesterton
- Jeanette Walls
- Lawrence Wray
- Romulus Linney
- Chet Cunningham
- Bob Dylan
- Roddy Doyle
- Lisa See
- Victor Hugo
- Zadie Smith
- William Goldman
- Truman Capote Quote
- J.K. Rowling
- Oscar Wilde
- Steven Bochco
- Douglas Adams
- Joseph Conrad
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Altman
- Matthew Arnold
- Robert Liebmann
- John Legend
- Stephen King
- John Campbell
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Tom Clancy
- Jodi Picoult
- Roald Dahl
- Orson Scott Card
- Anton Chekhov
- William C. Gault
- Raymond Chandler
- William Faulkner
- Harlan Ellison
- George Singleton
- Quentin Tarantino
- Gloria Steinem
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
- Sidney Sheldon
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Robert Benchley
- M. K. Simmons
- Ernest Hemingway
- T.S. Eliot
- Alice Munro
- Stephen Leigh
- Mark Twain
- C. J. Cherryh
- Elbert Hubbard
- John Irving
- E. L. Doctorow
- Christopher Hampton
- E. B. White
- Neil Gaiman
- Thomas Jefferson
- Clarence Budington Kelland
- Will Rogers
- Sloan Wilson
- Mickey Spillane
- George Bernard Shaw
- Stephen Wright
J.K. Rowling
I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.