Michael Korda
Michael Korda
Michael Kordais an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
writing curiosity world
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
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If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
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Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,
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To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.