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> [The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/the-writing-life-is-a-secret-life-wither-we-admit-it-or-not/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

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## More by Jayne Anne Phillips

> [Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/then-he-s-inside-you-and-your-body-remembers-each-time-every-man-even/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-write-line-by-line-by-the-sound-and-the-weight-and-the-music-of-the/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-don-t-do-much-rewriting-because-each-paragraph-is-very-carefully/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/literature-can-teach-us-how-to-live-before-we-live-and-how-to-die/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/smoke-veils-the-air-like-souls-in-drifting-suspension-declining-the/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-think-we-really-forget-how-connected-we-are-to-the-past/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/if-all-stories-are-fiction-fiction-can-be-true-not-in-detail-or-fact/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/the-ragged-cat-drags-its-belly-across-where-the-grass-is-short-and/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/that-whole-business-of-having-two-homes-and-that-divided-loyalty-bind/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I wish I had more time to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-wish-i-had-more-time-to-write/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-work-via-the-high-tension-wire-method-which-is-maybe-going-for-long/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-don-t-investigate-things-by-writing-about-them-but-let-them-build/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-don-t-outline-i-listen-to-a-kind-of-whisper-inside-the-material/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/if-death-is-this-brilliant-slide-this-high-fine-music-felt-as-pure/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

> [I don't write a novel every two years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayne-anne-phillips/i-don-t-write-a-novel-every-two-years/)

[Jayne Anne Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayne-anne-phillips/)

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