Character Quote by Steven Pressfield

The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but…

— Steven Pressfield

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

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 is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

— Michael Shurtleff

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 best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This…

— Sufjan Stevens

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the…

— Anna Quindlen

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

— Elizabeth Berg

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos