D day Quote by Anne Roiphe

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that…

— Mordecai Richler

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about…

— Feist

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

— Matthew Perry

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Richard Price

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that…

— Nicholson Baker

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

— Siri Hustvedt

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of…

— David Bowie

“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to…

— Tim O'Brien