Phil Klay Quotes

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

Phil Klay

Focus
Stress

Quotes to Explore

If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.

Laura Dern
- Time
- Good
- True
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- Think
- Science
- Mistake
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Nan Hayworth
- Care
- Accept
- Doctors
I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

Pat Paulsen
- Long
- Wine
- Trail
I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

Kara Walker
- Family
- Know
- Violence
Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

Patricia Clarkson
- Character
- Know
- Fly