My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civil War and World War II. When I came to Virginia to go to school, I realized I was surrounded by the Civil War. It became my first love as a hobby.

It's my opinion, Historic words of Logic and Peace did not just survive, but were protected just as much destroyed through war"