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

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

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you th…

- Homer Hickam