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. Michael Korda Read Quote
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement. Michael Korda Read Quote
From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare. Michael Korda Read Quote
I’d fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so. Michael Korda Read Quote
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. Michael Korda Read Quote
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. Michael Korda Read Quote
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. Michael Korda Read Quote
I’m always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers. Michael Korda Read Quote
