Why are kids like me always being drafted into wars we…

I would like to get drafted at all and I will be happy to play for whoever drafts me.

— Kristaps Porzingis

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.

— Dez Bryant

“My relationships failed because i never showed up to the wars i didn't feel like fighting.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'

— Viv Albertine

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be…

— Margaret Mitchell

“You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?” “No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?” “I say, ‘Why…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have…

— John Irving

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

— Jennifer Egan

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least twenty rewrites…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me…

— Emma Donoghue

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff