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Michael Korda Quotes

English - Novelist | October 8, 1933 -

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

Myself Others Books Observing Based

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

Myself Me Thought Enough Kind Never

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

Success Power Childhood People Kind

I'm a relatively unfocused person.

Person Relatively

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Book Without Impulse Publishing Came

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

Revolution Left Oxford Having Fought

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I Am Fast I Can Three More Always

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

Experience I Am Lunch Meetings You

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.

Journey Knowledge History Myself

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

Need Because Give Lot Them Authors

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

Success Father Myself Me Winning

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

Noble Big Being Created

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