War Writing Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about War Writing

War Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. — Bertolt Brecht

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. — Walter Mosley

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes. — Howard Mittelmark

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. — Jeffrey Archer

I don't write to chase away my demons ~
I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war! — Muse

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. — Pat Barker

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. — Charles Caleb Colton

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand. — Christopher Isherwood

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that. — Phil Klay

You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead? — Kurt Vonnegut

My heart is bigger than my fist. — Jill Telford

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. — Andre Dubus

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine. — Clive James

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved. — Sasa Stanisic

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. — Henrik Ibsen

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

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon. — John Brandon

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku. — Mem Fox

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write. — Ernest Hemingway,

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. — Willie Nelson

The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used to kill
and to save. — Linda Stasi

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto. — James Ellroy

Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War. — Amanda Lance

Old soldiers never die, they write novels. — James Jones

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank