"I write line by line, by the sound……" — Jayne Anne Phillips
"I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words."
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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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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own…
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your…
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
— Jim Bakker
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to…
— James A. Baldwin
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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think…
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in…
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
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