Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
eye kissing numbness
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.
pain laughter doe
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
long world littles
I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.
sky atmosphere decay
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
struggle character heart
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
honesty fearless care
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
alive
Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.
warning politician cigarette
Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
world pay saws
When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
way danger awake
The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
imagination killers
Imagination is a killer.
rotary remember forget
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
dream struggle views
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.
fear hangover difficult
With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.