Jeffrey Archer Quotes
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
