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Authors
James A. Michener
American
Novelist
About the author
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Problems
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#People
#Food
#Fear
#Home
#Religion
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#People
#Imagination
#Experience
#Writers
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Dreams
#Temptation
#Defeat
#Reality
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Artist
#Arrogance
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Dream
#Scientists
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Country
#Idea
#Writers
#America
#Expression
#France
#Russia
#Germany
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Problems
#Writing
#Army
#Navy
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Courage
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#American
#Men
#Nurses
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Writer
#Tradition
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Want
#Career
#Writing
#Concern
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Words
#Writing
#Emotions
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Women
#Journey
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Character
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#People
#Light
#Age
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Dignity
#Man
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
James A. Michener,
American
Novelist
#Writer