"Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read."

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Source : Michael Korda (1999). “Another Life: A Memoir of Other People”, Random House Incorporated

Michael Korda

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.”

Source : "Kelly Wearstler Celebrates Her Fourth Book, 'Rhapsody'". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. February 07, 2013.
“How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.”
“Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Everyone wanna tweet but they don't know who to follow!”
“To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.”
“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”
“You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.”
“There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.”

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