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James A. Michener

James A. Michener

James A. Michener föddes den 3 februar 1907
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Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

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

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

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

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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

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

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

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

… Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

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.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

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

And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

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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