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James A. Michener - From the Artists category:
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Books category:
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Books category:
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Character category:
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Difficulty category:
It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Dreams category:
Writers turn dreams into print. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Editing category:
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Expectation category:
We are never prepared for what we expect. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Fear category:
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Imagination category:
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Journey category:
For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Knowledge category:
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel, which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Life category:
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Revelation category:
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Tradition category:
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Travel category:
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. (James A. Michener)
James A. Michener - From the Writing category:
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. (James A. Michener)
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