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Joe Haldeman Quotes

American - Author | June 9, 1943 -

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

Training Story Think Short Now Poet

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

Thoughts Down Write Out Carry Stuff

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Good Moon Nice Missed Stranger Goes

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

War Will Become Something Worse

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

Think Back Sometimes Theme Going

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Writing Book Pen Special Hand Turn

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Power Day People Mind Control Done

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

Good Courage Great Think Enjoy Kind

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Life World You Bed Risk Always

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

War Person Escape Trauma Soldier

I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

War Book Loved Said Three Hand

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

Experience War Poetry Me Writing

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