All James A. Michener Quotes
- Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. Character
- The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. Confuse
- An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. Acceptance
- Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. Almost Shudders
- I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. Brilliant Ideas
- When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man. Great
- A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. Becomes
- Writers turn dreams into print. Dream
- If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. Anyone
- a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor. Arrives
- The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his… Art
- Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… Acquire
- We are never prepared for what we expect. Expect
- If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. All
- There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. Consuming
- 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… Career
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bront who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. Atilde
- If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home Avoid