Homer Hickam Quotes

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

Topics

ChangeWritingStoryBe TrueTrue

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Joel Kinnaman

SchoolParentsMeRootsHigh School

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

John Eccles

MenAppreciationBrainWorldSociety

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

John Lydon

TogetherEffortRecordTakesApplaud

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

Robert J. Waldinger

ParentingQualitySiblingInformation

Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness.

Jeff Lindsay

MorningDarknessTomorrowThink

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Stevie Wonder

LoveWomanManLove IsClearly

I love my craft.

Rob Liefeld

LoveCraftI Love

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

Michele Bachmann

LightSeriousMattersSideInvolved

The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the earth. My first scene in a movie was with James Cagney, for goodness sakes. There I was, just out of the U.S. Navy without an acting lesson to my name.

Dean Jones

WorkGreatPeopleFaceNameActing

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.

Chris Daughtry

TogetherVoiceAmericanGoalBand

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Brenton Thwaites

CultureCountryAustraliaWhatever

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

Bob Inglis

ThoughtTestingSystemFacingMeans

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