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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.