James A. Michener Quotes

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

Religion, Home, Food

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener

Great, Dream, Engineers

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

Love, Human, Writing

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener

Character, Third, Tries

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

Life, Dreams, Reality

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

Age, Dark, Light

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

Life, Find, Days

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
James A. Michener

Problems, Insoluble

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

Country, America, Creative

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

Women, Men, Find

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

Great, Late, Writer

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
James A. Michener

Good, Writer, Excellent

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener

Courage, Afraid, Takes

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

Artist, Arrogance, Profound

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

Great, Experience, Write

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

Men, Two, American

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

Writing, Career, Find

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

Writing, Done, Problems

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: February 3, 1907

Died: October 16, 1997

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