Top 18 Quotes by James A. Michener

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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.

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.

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

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

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

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

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

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.