28 ordspråk av James A. Michener

James A. Michener

James A. Michener föddes den 3 februari 1907
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 … 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.

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

 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.

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

 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 am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

 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.

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

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

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

 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.

 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.

 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.

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

 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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