“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.” ThinkingMenMadeWarCharacterHandsSeemsPerfectFictionFateMessPlotVietnamSessionFuryTanksRottenSyntheticBriefingSmall Hands Author:Wilfrid Sheed
“I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.” MayMadeSaidBookDesignIndustryPaperUnderstoodBoundsCastsBuyingPlotInkProvisionBorrowingInk And PaperFagots Author:Michel de Montaigne