We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda Art 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
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
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda Goals Copy Share Image
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. — Michael Korda Book Copy Share Image
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda Assets Copy Share Image
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get. — Michael Korda Family Copy Share Image
“Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make… — Michael Korda Writing Copy Share Image
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb… — Michael Korda Abraham Copy Share Image
Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl,… — Michael Korda Behind Copy Share Image
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by… — Michael Korda Advantage Copy Share Image
To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about… — Michael Korda Coward Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point… — Michael Korda Advice Copy Share Image
I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were… — Michael Korda Beverly hills Copy Share Image
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to… — Michael Korda Admiration Copy Share Image
“It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at… — Michael Korda Crazy people Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to… — Michael Korda America Copy Share Image
About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant… — Michael Korda Great Copy Share Image
In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to… — Michael Korda Bad 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
Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer,… — Michael Korda Believe Copy Share Image
Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great… — Michael Korda Always Copy Share Image
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that… — Michael Korda Editors Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Accepting Copy Share Image
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. — Michael Korda Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know… — Michael Korda Did Copy Share Image
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some… — Michael Korda Eastern europe Copy Share Image
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly… — Michael Korda Amazing Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily… — Michael Korda Believe Copy Share Image
When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen… — Michael Korda End Copy Share Image
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human… — Michael Korda Fame Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor -… — Michael Korda Actor Copy Share Image
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how… — Michael Korda Energy 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
