Blind Quote by Chinua Achebe

We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete,…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

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

“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If…

— Chris Hedges

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

— Elizabeth Samet

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human…

— Elijah Wood

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without…

— Chinua Achebe

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just…

— Juliet Marillier

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

— Tim O'Brien

“Stories are bulls. Writers come of age full of vigor, and they feel the need to drive the old stories from the herd. One…

— Jess Walter

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

— D. H. Lawrence

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain…

— George Orwell