Occupation: Author Birth: February 3, 1907 Death: October 16, 1997
The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes..
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping….
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his informa….
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it..
In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of mag….
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, wh….
I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you….
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this ….
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut ….
I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakec….
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small ….
I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian….
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were….
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years..
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and th….
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heri….
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize ….
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's ….
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living..
I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew ….
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize..