Character Quote by Elijah Wood

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

“Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every…

— Ellen Hopkins

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to…

— Sasa Stanisic

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our…

— Chinua Achebe

The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the…

— Elijah Wood

The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have a discussion…

— Phil Klay

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

— Tim O'Brien

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

“In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then.…

— Tom Bissell

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the main things that seemed understandably frustrating about lots of popular narratives was the one-dimensionality of a veteran's story.

— Fred Hechinger

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many…

— Laura Hillenbrand