James A. Michener Quotes

• I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

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• An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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• All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

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• They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

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• There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

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• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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• The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

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• The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

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• Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

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• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

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• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

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• I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.

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• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

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James A. Michener (19)

Birth:	3rd February, 1907
Death:	16th October, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Philanthropist, Writer

About

James Albert Michener was born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American novelist, philanthropist and short story writer. He was also known for his meticulous research behind the books. He wrote several novels include: The Fires of Spring, Sayonara, Hawaii, Caravans, The Source, The Drifters, Centennial, Chesapeake, The Covenant, Space, Poland, Texas, Legacy, Alaska, Caribbean, Journey, The Novel, South Pacific, Mexico, Recessional, Miracle in Seville, and Matecumbe. He wrote other books include: Tales of the South Pacific(collection of short stories), Return to Paradise(collection of short stories), The Voice of Asia, The Bridge at Andau, Iberia, The Watermen, The Eagle and the Raven, My Lost Mexico, and The World Is My Home(autobiography). He became a major philanthropist, donating more than $100 million to educational, cultural, and writing institutions.

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