Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

About Jayne Anne Phillips:

Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer, born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia.
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Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

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

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

I don't write a novel every two years.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

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 wish I had more time to write.

Jayne Anne Phillips

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all ...

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameJayne Anne Phillips
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer
  • BornJuly, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship