Quotes by : James A. Michener

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has....

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge;....

Rampaging horsemen can conquer only the city can civilize.

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and....

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with nature.....

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason....

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great....

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.