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Kevin Powers
American
Writer
Born:
Jul 11
,
1980
Family
Me
School
War
Writing
You
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My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
Kevin Powers
War
Will
Honestly
About
Someone
Writes
Opinion
Anti-War
Personal
Inherently
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
Kevin Powers
Myself
Writing
Secret
Always
Aspiration
Even
Kept
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
Kevin Powers
Family
Army
Father
Marine Corps
Uncle
Young
Military
Soldiers
Way
Corps
Seemed
Both
Had
Adulthood
Like
WWII
Were
Arriving
Been
Male
Role
Role Models
Models
Any
Grandfathers
Served
Career
Marine
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
Kevin Powers
Writing
About
Most
Understand
Always
Interested
Things
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.
Kevin Powers
Work
Writing
Degree
Think
Changes
Way
Input
Admire
About
Determine
Seems
Writers
Counterproductive
Particular
Know
Piece
Read
Trying
Any
Influence
As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.
Kevin Powers
You
Blessing
Matter
Become
Extreme
Circumstances
Able
Almost
Almost Anything
How
Normal
Human
Curse
Human Beings
Anything
Beings
Adapt
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
Kevin Powers
Service
Freedom
Me
Failure
Fear
Path
Kind
One Of The Things
Give
Give Me
Take
Had
Freedom From
Iraq
Expectations
Did
Any
Standard
Things
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
Kevin Powers
Positive
War
Light
Envision
Left
Novel
Honest
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
Kevin Powers
Me
Writing
Own
Seem
My Own
Poetry
Prose
Importance
Equal
Reader
Difference
Much
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