Ability Quote by Jon Lee Anderson

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

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

— Sasa Stanisic

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a…

— Francisco Goldman

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no…

— Leslie Cockburn

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at…

— Haruki Murakami

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many…

— Patrick Cockburn

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away…

— Chris Cleave

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy…

— George R. R. Martin

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,

— Kevin Powers

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

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute