Writer Quotes by Arthur Hailey

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

— Arthur Hailey

“... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.”

— Arthur Hailey

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a…

— Arthur Hailey

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

— Arthur Hailey

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

— Arthur Hailey

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not…

— Arthur Hailey

Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful…

— Arthur Hailey

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

— Arthur Hailey

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or…

— Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

— Arthur Hailey

“Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it…

— Arthur Hailey

“The same rumour continued: Patroni made love the same way he did everything else – with a long, thin cigar stuck jauntily in the…

— Arthur Hailey

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

— Arthur Hailey

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

— Arthur Hailey

“...a private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself.”

— Arthur Hailey