War is not won by victory.
Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
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.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.