Action Quote by Johan Galtung

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after…

— Junot Diaz

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became…

— George Packer

“And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would…

— Barack Obama

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew…

— Randy Forbes

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,'…

— Amy Waldman

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity…

— Porochista Khakpour

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to…

— Rudy Giuliani

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the…

— Amitava Kumar

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny…

— Carl Levin

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying…

— Rudrangshu Mukherjee

“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a bumbling imperialism.…

— Charles Bowden