Quotes by Herman Wouk

• Write a page a day. It will add up.
• The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
• Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
• I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
• I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
• I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
• 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.
• Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
• The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.