Built Quote by Steven Pressfield

When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and…

— Steven Pressfield

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life.…

— Richard Flanagan

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled,…

— Sloane Crosley

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would…

— Helen Mirren

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

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

— Laeta Kalogridis

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game.…

— Chris Hedges

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

— John Hillcoat