Joe Haldeman

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

“One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.”

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