60 Quotes by Homer Hickam

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    A man can’t hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

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    A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn’t quite work that way.

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    As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don’t ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

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    Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You’re reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

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    I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God’s greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

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    The key to not getting rejected if you’re writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

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    Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

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    I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

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