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The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener
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James A. Michener
Age: 90 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 3
Died: 1997
Died: October 16
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James Albert Michener
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
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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.
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If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
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A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
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The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
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I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish I could be part Negro I could be Irish I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
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