Tim O'Brien's Quotes

Tim O'Brien's Quotes 17

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to...

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful...

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three...

I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got...

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from...

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the...

A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories...

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets...

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth...

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