Uncelebrated Success Quotes

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

When I tell people I played with Giannis they don't remember it as much because I played with him in the first two years of his career, so he was not as flashy.

I was never the star of my team, not even in my small town.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.