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Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
Tim O'Brien
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
Tim O'Brien
For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.
Tim O'Brien
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
Tim O'Brien
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
Tim O'Brien
Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.
Tim O'Brien
I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.
Tim O'Brien
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'
Tim O'Brien
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
Tim O'Brien
Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.
Tim O'Brien
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 of answers.
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
A true war story is never moral.
Tim O'Brien
Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.
Tim O'Brien
