About Quote by Anita Shreve

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

— Martin McGuinness

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge…

— William Broyles, Jr

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life.…

— Richard Flanagan

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

— James Ellroy

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

— George Washington

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein