About Quote by Aminatta Forna

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to…

— Jonathan Ames

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

— Sasa Stanisic

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

— Doris Lessing

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

— N. K. Jemisin

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated…

— Fionn Whitehead

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy…

— George R. R. Martin

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility…

— Michael Morpurgo

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

— Haruki Murakami