My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
Tim O'BrienWriting doesnโt get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
Tim O'BrienLinda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.
Tim O'Brien