War Quote by Paul Brody

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there…

— Aberjhani

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to…

— Nadine Gordimer

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and science at…

— Walter Isaacson

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what…

— Paul Auster

“I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S. Eliot, which…

— Dennis Gabor

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

— Adam Hochschild

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary wars since…

— Jacques Ellul

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

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