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Writer Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

13 Writer quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

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Jayne Anne Phillips offers a small but potent set of musings that illuminate her relationship with the written word. The brevity of the list doesn’t diminish its impact; her observations are crisp, resonant, and perfect for a quick spark of inspiration.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are…

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

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The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its…

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

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“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with…

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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.…

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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though…

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I wish I had more time to write.

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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…

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

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