The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature. Amos Oz More Quotes by Amos Oz More Quotes From Amos Oz I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed. Amos Oz words never experience soldier