Michael Korda

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

Cats don’t think they’re owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they’re free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

Michael Korda

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.

Michael Korda

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.

Michael Korda

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Michael Korda

Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.

Michael Korda

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the ‘simple little black dress,’ the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

Michael Korda

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

Michael Korda