There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things -- read and write -- and wait.
Source: Interview by James Baldwin; in De Witt Clinton High School Magpie, Winter 1942.
-- Countee Cullen, (May 30 1903-1946), US poet; He wrote Color, 1925 and The Black Christ, 1930.