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James A. Michener
American
Novelist
Born:
Feb 3
,
1907
Died:
Oct 16
,
1997
Life
Me
People
Very
Writing
You
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener
Food
Home
Religion
You
People
Fear
Better
Stay
Stay-At-Home
Might
Customs
Ignore
Avoid
Reject
America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
James A. Michener
Stupid
Nation
Cowardly
Would
Hopes
Only
Vast
Deny
America
Refuse
Acknowledge
Them
Flaws
Many
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.
James A. Michener
Never
Missed
Device
Self-Pity
Childhood
Cycle
Used
Whole
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener
Love
Writing
Emotions
Words
Tangle
Human
Human Emotions
Swing
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.
James A. Michener
Army
Writing
Problems
Nurse
Herself
About
Simply
She
Well
Very
Officer
Stole
Done
Where
Lovely
Uniform
Navy
Her
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
Character
You
Consists
Tries
Fourth
Third
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener
You
Arrogance
Very
Artist
Thing
Profound
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
James A. Michener
Problems
Only
Time-Consuming
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.
James A. Michener
You
Writing
Somebody
Whatever
Think
Else
Find
Variation
Except
Crucial
Concern
Does
How
Fit
Want
Interesting
Thing
Career
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
Great
Complains
Late
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Brought
Writer
Never
Tradition
Up
Disdain
Explains
Century
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener
You
Courage
Ought
Takes
Know
Afraid
If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
James A. Michener
Today
You
Man
Young
Statement
Make
Industry
Were
Young Man
Moviemaking
Might
Really
Lured
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
James A. Michener
Advice
Beginning
Bit
Only
Writer
Read
Sure
Hammerstein
Rodgers
Your
Novel
I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
James A. Michener
Writing
Guy
Hill
Up
Just
I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
James A. Michener
Me
Face
Situation
Immediate
Pressures
Outside
Developed
Attended
Along
Attitudes
Real
Permitted
Came
Issues
Were
Discussed
Seminars
Real Thing
Where
Which
Social
Certain
Social Issues
Many
Thing
If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you're typing faster than your mind is working.
James A. Michener
You
Mind
Faster
Type
Typing
Fingers
Than
Working
Your
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
James A. Michener
Men
Group
Nurses
Were
Surrounded
American
American Men
Dozen
Two
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