Angry Quote by John Edward Christopher Hill

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So…

— Ernest Hemingway

“By my twenty-second birthday, you know, I had killed eight men. Eight that I was certain of, eight that I could plainly count. That…

— Marcus Brotherton

“k are you writing?’ ‘It’s a fictionalised account of the death of Archduke Ferdinand.’ ‘A historical novel then. How interesting. You understand a lot…

— Tom Wood

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…

— Aminatta Forna

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child

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

— Richard Price

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

— Doris Lessing

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz

“books about the war, if any, were written from the perspective of a 14 year old German boy who was drafted to fight for…

— Horst Christian

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak

“A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved…

— Rudyard Kipling

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford