The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
Herman WoukStrange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Herman WoukI learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Herman WoukThe films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.
Herman Wouk