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• Tim O'Brien:

  Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

• Tim O'Brien:

  It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

• Tim O'Brien:

  Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an expl

• Tim O'Brien:

  Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

• Tim O'Brien:

  The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart

• Tim O'Brien:

  Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

• Tim O'Brien:

  I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

• Tim O'Brien:

  My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to k

• Tim O'Brien:

  Pinkville was called Pinkville because in the military maps, it was shaded a bright kind of shimmer

• Tim O'Brien:

  Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a