Quotes by : Tim O'Brien

I was a coward. I went to the war.

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge....

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness....

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is....

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis,....

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of....

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to....

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with....