Herman Wouk Quotes

• I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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• Write a page a day. It will add up.

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• The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

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• The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

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• Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

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• Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

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• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

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• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

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• I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

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• Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

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Birth:	27th May, 1915
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Herman Wouk was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American novelist, whose best-selling 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He earned a BA degree from Columbia University in 1934. He has written several novels include: City Boy, Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, Don't Stop the Carnival, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Inside, Outside, The Hope, The Glory, A Hole in Texas, and The Lawgiver. He has written several films include: Slattery's Hurricane, Confidentially Connie, The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar, and Youngblood Hawke.

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