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'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

— Bruce Cockburn

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful.

— Janine di Giovanni

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

— Kelly Preston

Anyone who's traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: 'War,' by Sebastian Junger.

— Joe Biden

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

— Denis Johnson

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

— Jenny Offill

I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion.

— Stephanie Kwolek

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

— Tea Obreht

✗Opposing Perspectives

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

— Junot Diaz