The Novel Quotes

“explained: “It happened, but only in the mind of the writer. And, of course, in your mind, too. That’s what a novel is. The exchange of dreams.”
― James A. Michener, The Novel: A Novel

“Tôi không yêu chiến tranh, nhưng tôi yêu lòng can đảm mà người bình thường dùng để đối mặt với chiến tranh.”
― James A. Michener, The Novel

“Damn, you know books and sports on television. You’re a triple threat.” “Those are the sorts of things that keep you alive when you pass seventy.” In mild”
― James A. Michener, The Novel: A Novel

“When I was in the United States I had the mournful feeling that eighty percent of your people would welcome a Spartan dictatorship if it promised to improve the schools, discipline the minorities, put women back in their place, install a religious supremacy and terminate the silliness of the Bill of Rights. Many modern Americans would leap at such an offer, it seemed to me, which is why I wanted you to see Sparta. Because what you see here is what such a choice always leads”
― James A. Michener, The Novel: A Novel