A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“We went into the night and for the first time in my life I saw the stars hanging low over the desert,… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“QUAKER: Since God maintains direct accessibility with every human life and offers instant and uncomplicated guidance, the intervention of priests and ministers… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“a word once written will often accidentally find a life that no one anticipates; it lies” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war.” But” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“That’s how it gonna be all your life,” Julia Cater told her son, and she was preaching old black wisdom, for through… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature. To be wholly alive a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“during the forthcoming even emptier years, she would still be there, a haunting vision of the other half of life, the womanliness,… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control,… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“We went into the night and for the first time in my life I saw the stars hanging low over the desert, for the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“A Roman came to Rabbi Gimzo the Water Carrier, and asked, "What is this study of the law that you Jews engage in?" and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
