Arthur Hailey quotes:

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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