I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. — Michael Korda Book Copy Share Image
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore… — Michael Korda Arab Copy Share Image
I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so. — Michael Korda Hungarian Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read. — Michael Korda Book Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right… — Michael Korda Age Copy Share Image
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have...… — Michael Korda People Copy Share Image
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until… — Michael Korda Europe Copy Share Image
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what… — Michael Korda Children Copy Share Image
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it… — Michael Korda Children Copy Share Image
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them. — Michael Korda Effort Copy Share Image
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it’s done well, and something of a mystery… — Michael Korda Art Copy Share Image
When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely… — Michael Korda Armistice Copy Share Image
We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and… — Michael Korda Choice Copy Share Image
“Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably… — Michael Korda Books Copy Share Image
“Almost the first thing I learned about being an editor was that it was hard work. To be sure, ditchdiggers and miners… — Michael Korda Books Copy Share Image
FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average… — Michael Korda Book club Copy Share Image
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda Goals Copy Share Image
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. — Michael Korda Chauvinism Copy Share Image
“My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his” — Michael Korda Father Copy Share Image
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. — Michael Korda Agitation Copy Share Image
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language. — Michael Korda Being Copy Share Image
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. — Michael Korda Feminism Copy Share Image
“It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.” — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda Action Copy Share Image
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.” — Michael Korda Failure Copy Share Image
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Books Copy Share Image
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda Art Copy Share Image
The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a… — Michael Korda Brutal Copy Share Image
