Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk
Herman Woukis 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,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1915
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Herman Wouk quotes about
This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
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.
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.