I went through a war and I was a combat infantry officer, so I said, 'I'm going to write the great American war novel.' That got me to the typewriter. I didn't get the novel published, but it got me into the process.

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It's not always necessary ... I don't always do it. But if something important has happened, and it hasn't been resolved, like this bombing raid on Libya ... I just postulate that.

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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

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Is what probably got me started writing.

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It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.

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It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

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This man has been trained for 14 years, since he was a boy, and he's full of hate and he's full of revenge, and he's gotten his hands on the list of the eight pilots who bombed that particular compound, and he's going to kill every one of them, ... He goes about killing three or four before Corey gets the connection.

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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

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