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.
From James A. Michener
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
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.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
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