Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other people and about the sorts of moral decisions those characters are making. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“late for that,” said Major Zima. “Besides, if there’s one thing I’ve learned doing Civil Affairs in Iraq, it’s that it’s hard to come… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came back from… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“She spent all his combat pay before he got back, and she was five months pregnant, which, for a Marine coming back from a… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“Chaplain Vega’s a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it’s about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“In 2008, around the time I got there, the 82nd Air- borne was building greenhouses near Tikrit. It was a brave new world, and… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have a discussion… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“We shot dogs. Not by accident. We did it on purpose, and we called it Operation Scooby. I'm a dog person, so I thought… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
