Quotes by Joe Haldeman

About Joe Haldeman:

Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. For his career writing science fiction and/or fantasy he is a SFWA Grand Master and since 2012 a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
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I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Joe Haldeman

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Ir...

Joe Haldeman

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

Joe Haldeman

You can't make a date in death's dateless night.

Joe Haldeman

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

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Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar: he never told me he was from another world: I never told him I was from his future.

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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 English professors contemplating adultery.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoe Haldeman
  • DescriptionAmerican science fiction writer
  • AliasesJoe William Haldeman
  • BornJune 9, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScience Fiction Writer; Novelist
  • WorksThe Forever War
  • AwardsNebula Award