Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.
I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.
I'm a relatively unfocused person.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
In order to suceed, we must first believe that we can.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
