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Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

~Michael Korda

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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.

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Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

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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.

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My books are based on observing others, not myself.

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

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To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

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I'm a relatively unfocused person.

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I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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