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

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 rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

- 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

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

- Homer Hickam

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

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

- Homer Hickam

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to …

- Homer Hickam