Jeffrey Archer Quotes

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

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.

Chatterers are a menace.

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.

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.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who’d had no upbringing, no chance in life.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I’m passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it’s got to be the comeback book.

I’ve loved art for more than 30 years.

I’m not involved in politics any more and they’re quite right.

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.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don’t know.