Butchery Quote by Ernest Hemingway

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

— John Edward Christopher Hill

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— A. B. Yehoshua

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

— Harry Elmer Barnes

“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

“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“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

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did…

— Ray Bradbury

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language…

— James Branch Cabell

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

— David Ignatius