British Quote by George Packer

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in…

— Joyce Kilmer

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 read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced…

— Kenneth Koch

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic -…

— Bruce Feiler

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…

— Pat Barker

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

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art…

— Donald Miller

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

— Dean Koontz

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She…

— Peter Capaldi