James A. Michener Quotes About Writing

• No soy muy buen escritor, pero soy un excelente reescribidor.

  James A. Michener

  Escritura, Artesanía, Excelente

• Si tu libro no te quita el sueño cuando lo escribes, tampoco se lo quitará a nadie cuando lo lea.

  James A. Michener

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

• Me encanta escribir. Me encanta el vaivén de las palabras cuando se enredan con las emociones humanas.

  James A. Michener

  Escritura, Columpios, Emoción

  Ernest Hemingway James A. Michener (1986). "El verano peligroso", Scribner Book Company

• Nunca me he considerado un buen escritor. Quien quiera reafirmarse en ello, que lea uno de mis primeros borradores. Pero soy uno de los grandes reescritores del mundo.

  James A. Michener

  Escribir, Mundo, Querer

• 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

  Writing, Complaining, Tradition

  The Observer, November 26, 1989.

• You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Firsts

• I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Army, Nurse

  "Tales of the South Pacific". Book by James A. Michener, 1947.

• 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

  Writing, People, Imagination

  "The Michener Phenomenon". Interview with Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1985.

• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Typewriters, Skills

• As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Men, Eight

• I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Eight, Talking

• The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

  James A. Michener

  Jobs, Writing, Stories

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.17, Dial Press

• In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Pages, Six

  Ernest Hemingway James A. Michener (1986). "El verano peligroso", Scribner Book Company

• During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Writing, Different

• 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.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

• Escribo a los ochenta y cinco años por las mismas razones que me impulsaron a escribir a los cuarenta y cinco; nací con un deseo apasionado de comunicar, de organizar la experiencia, de contar historias que dramatizaran las aventuras que los lectores podrían haber vivido. He sido ese hombre antiguo que se sentaba por la noche junto a la hoguera y obsequiaba a los cazadores con recitados imaginativos sobre sus proezas. La función de un manzano es dar manzanas. El trabajo de un narrador es contar historias, y yo me he concentrado en esa obligación.

  James A. Michener

  Jobs, Writing, Adventure

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.17, Dial Press

• Supongo que aprendí a escribir cuando era muy pequeño. Cuando leí un libro infantil sobre la guerra de Troya y decidí que los griegos eran en realidad una panda de farsantes con sus caballos tramposos y las cosas terribles que hacían, robándose las esposas unos a otros, etc., así que a esa edad tan temprana reescribí el final de la Ilíada para que ganaran los troyanos. Y chico, Aquiles y Áyax consiguieron lo que querían, créeme. Y después, a intervalos frecuentes, escribía algo. Era realmente extraordinario. Nunca de muy alto mérito, pero la audacia de que era.

  James A. Michener

  Caballo, Niños, Guerra

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

• The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Successful, Somewhere Else

• Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

  James A. Michener

  Libro, Escritura, Yo

• If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Men, Young

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