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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

James A. Michener's Popular Quotes

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…

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A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

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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…

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We are never prepared for what we expect.

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I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

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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…

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

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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 …

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