Top 10 Elliot Ackerman Quotes
#1. Like the bottom of a lake, the trees trapped a cold reminder that the sun struggles to touch all parts of the earth equally.
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#2. There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.
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#3. Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
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#4. Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
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#5. The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
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#6. All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
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#7. When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.
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#8. My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongside. We bled alongside each other; we mourned together. When I came home, these weren't people I could keep up with on Facebook.
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#9. I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.
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#10. Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying.
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