Before and after Quote by Asne Seierstad

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during…

— Ernest Hemingway

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak

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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings…

— Virginia Woolf

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's…

— George Packer

“I fared better than many of the people I wrote about in this book; yet even so, over the course of the events depicted…

— Dexter Filkins

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything…

— Martha Gellhorn

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…

— Pat Barker

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is…

— Linda Sue Park

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

— Abraham Lincoln

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