Born Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

— Antonio Tabucchi

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

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to be treated…

— Fionn Whitehead

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

I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we…

— Paul Auster

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I was born and raised in war.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British…

— Walter Dean Myers

Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.

— James Spithill

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