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Phil Klay

Writing ‘Redeployment’ shook me in ways I never expected.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don’t have the brain space for it.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

There’s something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that’s happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I’m not.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

– Phil Klay

Phil Klay

When I was in Marine training I memorised ‘The Waste Land,’ which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

– Phil Klay

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