Michael Korda

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

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

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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.