The most powerful weapon these writers have at their command is poetry's ability to distil experience; it captures the essence of war as nothing else can.
He has described Beethoven's final piano sonata, a work of contrasting animation and repose, as "distilled experience" and a "prelude to silence".
Here, he seems to be distilling his experiences into a form of wisdom literature, a disquisition on love that emerges in dramatic form.
We asked them to distil their experience and expertise into a list of their individual top 40 choices, which we turned into our overall countdown of 100 names.
(Mr. Strigl distilled his experiences into a 2011 book, "Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?") Growth exploded after the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the rapid spread of Android-powered smartphones.
He distils his experiences into a tapestry banner based on those carried in the miners' gala and blessed in the cathedral, and makes one of his famous pots covered in images that caught his eye and imagination.
Did she ask Sir Jeremy Heywood, the civil service head, to distil the experience of permanent secretaries with ministers and departments, or even open any previous machinery of government manuals?
Kaczynski knows a thing or two about the joys and the torture of being a younger brother, and has distilled his experiences of life as the brother of the Unabomber into an essay for a new collection of reflections on brotherly love and rivalry.
But after several bouts of serious depression, requiring hospitalisation and lifelong medication, his debut taught him that writing fiction "took him out of time and released him from some of the pain of being himself," writes Mr Max.The aim of Wallace's work was to "distil the experience of being human in a human community," he explained to his first editor.
There have been many attempts in rock'n'roll to distil the experience of heartbreak – not the wider misery exactly, the wailing and the wretchedness, but of a lover's ability, as the Decemberists once put it, "to rend your ventricles apart".
