Quotes about "War & Peace"

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. ”

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another. ”

Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere. ”

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. ”

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine. ”

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control. ”

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. ”

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month. ”

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. ”

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. ”