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My greatest good fortunę was thar I didn’t know that I was doing everything wrong; if I’d done a sin gle thing right, I probably would have failed. If l'd known how hard—statistically speaking- it is to get a first novel published, l might have given up and done what my wifc told me to do—sold some morę insurance. What suc cess really means, 1 think, is look-ing failure In the face and tossing the dice anyway. You may be the only person who ever knows how the dice come up, but in that knowledge you have something that millions of people will never have—because they were afraid to try ■