Phil Klay Quotes

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.

I read a lot of war literature.

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

Our military is meant to fight and win war.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.

Every war is different. It's of its own kind.

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

Wars ruin armies.