I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Another Copy Share Image
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. — Tim O'Brien Easier Copy Share Image
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true. At its core, perhaps, war… — Tim O'Brien Death Copy Share Image
“It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire,… — Tim O'Brien Beauty Copy Share Image
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of… — Tim O'Brien Facts Copy Share Image
“Is there sound, he wondered, without reception? Do you hear the shot that gets you? How big, in fact, was the Big… — Tim O'Brien Big bang Copy Share Image
It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot… — Tim O'Brien Deceit Copy Share Image
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book… — Tim O'Brien Book Copy Share Image
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... — Tim O'Brien Ends Copy Share Image
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry. — Tim O'Brien Abiding Copy Share Image
“The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It was a brisk, polite town. It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know. Norman Bowker leaned… — Tim O'Brien Suit and tie Copy Share Image
“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach… — Tim O'Brien Fiction Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Civil war Copy Share Image
You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,… — Tim O'Brien Blood Copy Share Image
