Top 18 Quotes by James A. Michener

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.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

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.

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