Quotes by Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

American novelist

Lived from: 1946 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 1 october 1946

  • Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
  • Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
  • When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
  • Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
  • I was a coward. I went to the war.
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  • A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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  • A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 80
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  • Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
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  • Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.
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  • Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
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  • I was a coward. I went to the war.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 58
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  • I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
    De last die ze droegen (1990)
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  • If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 66
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  • Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
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  • My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
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  • Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
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  • The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 4
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  • What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 34
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  • When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 183
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  • Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
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  • Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
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  • You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 78
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What are the most famous quotes from Tim O'Brien?

The two most famous quotes from Tim O'Brien are:

  • "A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."
  • "A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."

When did Tim O'Brien live?

Tim O'Brien was born in 1946.