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Joe Haldeman
American
Author
Born:
Jun 9
,
1943
Book
Down
Had
Think
War
Writing
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
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
Day
People
Political
Mind
Power
Control
Military
Type
Those
Hopes
Weapons
Able
Never
Day-To-Day
Over
Because
Get
Done
Just
Want
Happens
Us
Use
Who
Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
Joe Haldeman
Life
You
World
Spend
Some
Risk
Could
Involves
Always
Bed
Anywhere
Your
Traveling
I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.
Joe Haldeman
War
Book
Three
Met
Had
He
Read
Said
Hand
Won
Times
Forever
Shook
Hugo
After
Loved
Much
Awards
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
Training
Poet
Military
Every
Think
Would
Fact
Remained
Had
Written
Combat
Short
Just
In Fact
Short Story
Story
Then
Novel
Military Training
Now
Now And Then
Peacetime
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
Joe Haldeman
Writing
Action
Down
Physical
Like
Hand
Just
Fiction
Use
I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.
Joe Haldeman
Thoughts
Down
Out
Carry
Write
Stuff
Like
Notebook
Things
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
Joe Haldeman
Good
Moon
Nice
Unpunished
Missed
Goes
Being
Landing
Being Nice
Stranger
Deed
Good Deed
It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
Joe Haldeman
Music
Black
White
President
Drama
Say
Black Music
Fair
Armstrong
Without
Hip-Hop
Integrating
Effect
Louis
Louis Armstrong
Commercial
America
African-American
Fiction
Elected
Much
Serious
When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
Joe Haldeman
Writing
First
Party
Cocktail
Back
Our
Harvard
Kind
Joint
Had
MIT
Department
Working
Started
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