Michael Korda
Michael Korda
Michael Kordais an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
believe self-confidence men
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
art book shoes
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
believe order people
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
book writing people
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
husband focus important
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
book thinking advice
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
basketball zero momentum
If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
numbers reader
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
mean simple luck
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
happiness success next
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
writing curiosity world
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
motivational positive believe
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
success distance achievement
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
action moments eternity
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.