Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
There are no French Puritans.
I'm a relatively unfocused person.
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.
Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.
I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
