Amount Quote by Sasa Stanisic

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

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

— Richard Price

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

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is…

— George Orwell

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

— Kevin Powers

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

— Walter Benjamin

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

— Walter Benjamin

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

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

War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

— John Reed

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a…

— Tim O'Brien