About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn’t worked. Michael Korda Read Quote
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it’s by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive. Michael Korda Read Quote
If your family was part of the movie business, then watching ‘Moguls & Movie Stars’ is like looking at the family photo album: hilarious to members of the family, numbingly boring to those outside the family circle. Michael Korda Read Quote
Patton’s personality was a complex one – he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the rows of ribbons, there was a much more ambiguous figure. Michael Korda Read Quote
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me. Michael Korda Read Quote
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter. Michael Korda Read Quote
When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, ‘Give the reader a break,’ Richard E. Simon. Michael Korda Read Quote
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. Michael Korda Read Quote
We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel. Michael Korda Read Quote
The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation. Michael Korda Read Quote
