Herman Wouk Quotes

Herman Wouk — American Novelist born on May 27, 1915,

Herman Wouk is an American author whose best-selling 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include the highly acclaimed The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages.The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, “the reclusive dean of American historical novelists.” Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday likened him to "an American Tolstoy.".. (wikipedia)

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Write a page a day. It will add up.