Tim O Brien Quotes

Tim O Brien Quote of the day

A thing may happen and be a total lie

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.