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> [“The ragged cat drags its belly across where the grass is short and the stones are sharp, under the lilacs that have no flowers. The flower smell is gone and the white falls off the trees. Seeds, Lark says, little…](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/)

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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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