Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
From Michael Korda
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.
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.
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
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.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
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.
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
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