It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.
Tim O'BrienI did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.
Tim O'BrienMy 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'Brien