My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Ken Follett
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and... →
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
Robert M. La Follette
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at... →
Jane Fonda
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to... →
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words... →
Shelby Foote
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Aminatta Forna