Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Jayne Anne Phillips on Wise Famous Quotes.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I wish I had more time to write.

I wish I had more time to write.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Talk between women friends is always therapy ...

Talk between women friends is always therapy ...

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Love is the outlaw's duty.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: I don't write a novel every two years.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Jayne Anne Phillips quotes: Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.