Game Play Quote by Phil Klay

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

“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

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

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

“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

War is too strange to be processed alone.

— Phil Klay

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

“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

“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

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

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

“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