Book War Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“The ragged cat drags its belly across where the grass is short and the stones are sharp, under the lilacs that have no flowers.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips