Quote by Tim O'Brien Download Open image ““His brain had the bends.”” — Tim O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He snorted softly. His talent had destroyed everything he had ever valued. With a shake of his head, he moved his thoughts away from… — Mitchell Hogan Copy Share Image
“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.” — Alex Beecroft Copy Share Image
“Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He struggles to make sense of it--all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...he looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it." Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
