One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to …

- Joe Haldeman

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about…

- Joe Haldeman

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene gl…

- Joe Haldeman

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

- Joe Haldeman

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

- Joe Haldeman

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first quest…

- Joe Haldeman

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

- Joe Haldeman

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

- Joe Haldeman

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

- Joe Haldeman