Difficult Quote by Tim O'Brien

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen…

— Tim O'Brien

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one…

— Christopher McQuarrie

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

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it…

— Tim O'Brien

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men…

— Tim O'Brien

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most…

— Atom Egoyan

There's conflict in every story.

— Riki Lindhome

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

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

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating…

— Doris Salcedo

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

— Anne-Marie Duff