"It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the Iraq War, Fobbit steps into the political conversation. There's no way to avoid that. I can appreciate that readers are probably going to line up on one side of the novel or the other. I hope they go to those polar extremes, actually."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dave Abrams

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.”
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
“If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.”

Source : Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.284, Hoover Institution Press
“Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”
“The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.”
“That's what character is, it's in the trying.”
“You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.”
“I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.”

Source : "Actress Lucy Punch". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 16, 2011.

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