James A. Michener (1907 – 1997)
American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well.
Texas is … "trotting" journalism, history in a hurry.
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.