Kevin Macdonald Quotes

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

I'm glad I never went to war.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.