About Quote by George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet

Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will…

— Robert Dessaix

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

— Richard Price

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

— Jon Krakauer

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of…

— Suzanne Collins

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

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the…

— Anna Quindlen