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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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Top 5 quotes from James Michener
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
Top 5 quotes from America
"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."
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