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Cathey, Robert Andrew, God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).
— Ronald T. Michener
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
— James A. Michener
Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.
— James A. Michener
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
— James A. Michener
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
— James A. Michener
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
— James A. Michener
It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.
— James A. Michener
You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle
— Tara Michener
This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!!
— James A. Michener
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
— James A. Michener
I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.
— James A. Michener
Wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
— James A. Michener
I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He
— James A. Michener
We are never prepared for what we expect.
— James A. Michener
The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.
— James A. Michener
I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
— James A. Michener
Writers turn dreams into print.
— James A. Michener
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
— James A. Michener
Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.
— Anna J. Michener
If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
— James A. Michener
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
— James A. Michener
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
— James A. Michener
Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.
— James A. Michener
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
— James A. Michener
Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.
— James A. Michener
I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.
— James A. Michener
It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.
— James A. Michener
From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.
— James A. Michener
voluntary part of their
— James A. Michener
My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So
— James A. Michener
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
— James A. Michener
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
— James A. Michener
dinner celebrating the patron saint of
— James A. Michener
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
— James A. Michener
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
— James A. Michener
Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.
— James A. Michener
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
— James A. Michener
To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful.
— James A. Michener
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
— James A. Michener
I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie
— Tara Michener
Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.
— James A. Michener
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
— James A. Michener
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
— James A. Michener
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
— James A. Michener
At last he found the branching stream that flowed down from Blue Valley, and now he was guided by the little stone beaver that climbed the cliff.
— James A. Michener
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
— James A. Michener
I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)
— Tara Michener
Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.
— James A. Michener
how small he was and how wormy in manner,
— James A. Michener
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
— James A. Michener
First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan.
— James A. Michener
If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.
— James A. Michener
I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
— James A. Michener
It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.
— James A. Michener
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
— James A. Michener
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
— James A. Michener
To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.
— James A. Michener
Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.
— James A. Michener
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
— James A. Michener
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
(I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?
— James A. Michener
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
— James A. Michener
A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
— James A. Michener
western paintings did not occur.
— James A. Michener
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
— James A. Michener
No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.
— James A. Michener
I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.
— James A. Michener
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
— James A. Michener
For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.
— James A. Michener
Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
— James A. Michener
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
— James A. Michener
This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way.
— James A. Michener
In six pages, I can't even say Hello.
— James A. Michener
Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland.
— James A. Michener
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
— James A. Michener
When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.
— James A. Michener
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
— James A. Michener
For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find.
— James A. Michener
The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
— James A. Michener
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
— James A. Michener
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
— James A. Michener
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
— James A. Michener
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
— James A. Michener
The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
— James A. Michener