I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.