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
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
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The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
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Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
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We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
book thinking advice
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
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Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.