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Herman Wouk [1915-0] American
Rank: 103
Novelist, Author


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.

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Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Humor
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Write a page a day. It will add up.
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
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I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
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Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
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