"I tell my students that being a writer……" — 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."
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18 Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
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Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
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Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that…
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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…
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Talk between women friends is always therapy...
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If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and…
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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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If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version…
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When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents…
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
— Conrad Black
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From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene…
— Steve Guttenberg
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There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to…
— James Garner
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Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with…
— Timothy Olyphant
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If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.
— Hiro Mashima
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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft!…
— Walter Gropius
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Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They…
— Unknown Author
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For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for…
— Beryl Markham
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men…
— Russell Kirk
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We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to…
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.
— Scott Turow
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Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your…
— Penelope Spheeris
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