About Quote by Bruce Feiler

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…

— Doris Lessing

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 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

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami

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 have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began…

— Harper Lee

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

— Salman Rushdie

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone…

— Ernest Hemingway

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna