I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those…

- Homer Hickam

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

- Homer Hickam

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite w…

- Homer Hickam

Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be h…

- Homer Hickam

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever mak…

- Homer Hickam

Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, …

- Homer Hickam

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

- Homer Hickam

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darknes…

- Homer Hickam

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

- Homer Hickam