quotes by David Halberstam

"The idea is vital. Telling a good story demands a great conception, a great idea for why the story works -- for what it is and how it connects to the human condition."
— David Halberstam

"Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business."
— David Halberstam (The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War)

"I am the most skeptical of men in one of the most skeptical of professions in a world which regrettably holds out fewer and fewer dreams the older I get. But on the water, fly in rod in hand, my dreams never desert me...I am never without hope."
— David Halberstam