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. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
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. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
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. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war’s dislocation. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
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. Joe Haldeman Read Quote
