Enough Quote by Chris Cleave

I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this…

— Phil Klay

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have,…

— Steve Martin

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for…

— Casey Spooner

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

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

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

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

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

— Sasa Stanisic

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine…

— Ken Follett