Arthur Hailey Quotes & Sayings

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. — Arthur Hailey

Somewhere? Even now, perhaps, it was not too late — Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. — Arthur Hailey

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. — Arthur Hailey

There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it. — Arthur Hailey

So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should. — Arthur Hailey

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself. — Arthur Hailey

A private hell was something you lived with alone, even when someone else's casual questions nudged old, raw wounds within yourself. — Arthur Hailey

It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting. — Arthur Hailey

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. — Arthur Hailey

Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see. — Arthur Hailey

Who preceded him, he enjoyed her sexual calisthenics, — Arthur Hailey

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. — Arthur Hailey

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness. — Arthur Hailey

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. — Arthur Hailey

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. — Arthur Hailey

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer. — Arthur Hailey

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything? — Arthur Hailey

... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man. — Arthur Hailey

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers. — Arthur Hailey