3 Quotes & Sayings By Ernest K Gann

Ernest K. Gann is known as one of the greatest American writers of adventure fiction. His books have sold more than five million copies, and his stories have been featured in major motion pictures, including "The Dawn Patrol" (1938), "A Walk Through Hell" (1944), "The High and the Mighty" (1954), "Flight to Mars" (1955), and "Capricorn One" (1978). Gann was twice honored with the Academy Award for Best Writing, for "The High and the Mighty" and "Flight to Mars." Over his career he received seven Writers Guild Awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement Read more

He is the only American who has ever won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for crime fiction.

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My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time? Ernest K. Gann
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You are supposed to know how to fly or you would not be here. You will now learn to fly all over again. Our way. I have examined your logbooks. They contain some interesting and clever lies. If you are lucky and work a good solid eighteen hours a day in this school, it is barely possible that a few of you may succeed in actually going out on the line-that is, if the company is still in such desperate need of pilots that it will hire anybody who wears his wings in his lapel and walks slowly past the front door. Ernest K. Gann