Quotes by Michener, James A.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century >>

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabi >>

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his w >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than >>

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerf >>

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer >>

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.

Michener, James A.