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.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.