Wars break things; they break stories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter.
There's conflict in every story.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.
Some of the most exciting moments in 'Star Wars' are when you're cutting between stories and you're building this momentum.
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.