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
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
... a war always ends.