Michael Korda

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.