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
I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda 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
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. — Michael Korda Accomplishment Copy Share Image
Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. — Michael Korda Achievement 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
I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages… — Michael Korda 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
There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the… — Michael Korda Belief Copy Share Image
We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as… — Michael Korda America Copy Share Image
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event,… — 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
Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those… — Michael Korda Being Copy Share Image
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of… — Michael Korda Adventure Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but… — Michael Korda Culture Copy Share Image
If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date,… — Michael Korda Book Copy Share Image
I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he… — Michael Korda Admiration Copy Share Image
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check… — Michael Korda Bee 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
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.” — Michael Korda Failure Copy Share Image
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda Action 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
“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
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always… — Michael Korda Fame Copy Share Image
