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I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.

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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

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If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

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I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

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There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

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One of the things that's difficult for people to understand is when you join the military, you don't sign up as an endorsement of any particular policy of the moment.

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People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

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Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

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At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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