Phil Klay : (6)

" I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it’s an abstract thing that’s felt differently for all the characters. " - Phil Klay

" Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O’Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative. " - Phil Klay

" I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps. " - Phil Klay

" I’ve been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don’t think there is anything. " - Phil Klay

" Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through. " - Phil Klay

" Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking. " - Phil Klay