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I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.