"The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has,……" — Tim O'Brien

"The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human."

— Tim O'Brien

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