English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

James A. Michener Quotes

James A. Michener quote: "If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing..."

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

James A. Michener

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. William Dampier
Joyce Brothers quote: "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers
Erykah Badu quote: "No one chooses to raise children alone."
No one chooses to raise children alone. Erykah Badu
Herbie Hancock quote: "Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the..."
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. Herbie Hancock
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a..."
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Friedrich Nietzsche
John Steinbeck quote: "I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I..."
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. John Steinbeck
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Hans Urs von Balthasar
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere. David Sedaris
Scott Brooks quote: "I love being in the gym."
I love being in the gym. Scott Brooks
Emily Dickinson quote: "A wounded dear leaps the highest"
A wounded dear leaps the highest Emily Dickinson
Plato quote: "Be kind, becuae everyone is having a really hard time."
Be kind, becuae everyone is having a really hard time. Plato
Christopher Lasch quote: "It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs..."
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Christopher Lasch
Immanuel Kant quote: "Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is..."
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton. David Letterman