When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in… — Michael Korda Books 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
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 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
“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often… — Michael Korda Life Copy Share Image
'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would… — Michael Korda 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
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and… — Michael Korda Children 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 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 Copy Share Image
It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom… — 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
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a… — Michael Korda Being Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. — Michael Korda Business Copy Share Image
The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in… — Michael Korda Chance Copy Share Image
The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not… — Michael Korda Ego Copy Share Image
It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale… — Michael Korda Ambition Copy Share Image
Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
If your family was part of the movie business, then watching 'Moguls & Movie Stars' is like looking at the family photo… — Michael Korda 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 Outsiders 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
Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at… — Michael Korda Director Copy Share Image
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of… — Michael Korda 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 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
I come from a family that was very strong, very successful, very bizarre, and terrifically exciting. Being a Korda is something I… — Michael Korda Family Copy Share Image
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The real fans do not just admire the star of their choice, they identify with him or her, while the star, unlike… — Michael Korda 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 Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda British Copy Share Image
