Tim O'Brien Believe Quotations

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

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.