17 Quotations by James A. Michener
- 1. All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
- 2. Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb ...
- 3. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- 4. Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again ...
- 5. I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud ...
- 6. I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read on ...
- 7. I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and poppe ...
- 8. I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain ...
- 9. I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
- 10. If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of ...
- 11. Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th ...
- 12. The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
- 13. The man who gives an adequate gift to a well-equipped American college is more sure of an earthly im ...
- 14. The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an ...
- 15. The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limit ...
- 16. They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
- 17. You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation ...
James A. Michener Quotes by Power Quotations
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