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

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

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time. — Leighton Meester

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

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

Jayne Anne Phillips ... is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite ... This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. — Robert Olen Butler

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

Talk between women friends is always therapy ... — Jayne Anne Phillips

Paint me perfect poetry. — N'Zuri Za Austin

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. — Bernie Sanders

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

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

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

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared. — Lou Holtz

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself. — J. Paul Getty

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

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

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

I wish I had more time to write. — Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

Knowledge has an important property. When you give it away, you don't lose it — Raj Reddy

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

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch

I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain. — Michael Vick

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is the outlaw's duty. — Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. — Deep Roy

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