James A. Michener Quotes

• February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997
• James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 books.
• Michener began his writing career during World War II.
• Michener was married three times. In 1935, he married Patti Koon. In 1948, they divorced, and the same year Michener married his second wife, Vange Nord.Michener met his third wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, at a luncheon in Chicago

James A. Michener Quotes

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

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

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

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

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

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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.

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

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