James A. Michener

"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."

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

"Look, son, if you calculate on getting me drunk and outsmarting me, quit now, because you simply can't do it."

"Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of ou…"

"You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be …"

"I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril."

"In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking…"

"A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild."