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 purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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My books are based on observing others, not myself.
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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
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The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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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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You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
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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.