My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

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

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

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  I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure o

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  I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I

• Tim O'Brien:

  I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow sol

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  There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all

• Tim O'Brien:

  The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'

• Tim O'Brien:

  To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but

• Tim O'Brien:

  In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are

• Tim O'Brien:

  To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the