Michael Korda Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.”

“It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.”

“I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.”

“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”

“An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.”

“I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.”

“Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.”

“The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.”

“Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.”

“I'm a relatively unfocused person.”