All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
There is no rule on how to write.