Books Quote by Kevin Powers Download Open image “I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.” — Kevin Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Honest Left Light Novel War
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 Copy Share Image
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself. — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.” — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall, no two… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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