14 Quotes by James Michener
- There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
- If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
- The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
- Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
- Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
- 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.
- It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
- They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
- I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
- I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
- I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
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