Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of "National Geographics", is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.