"The writing life is a secret life, wither……" — Jayne Anne Phillips

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

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Admit Quotes Life Quotes Life Is Quotes Life Wither Quotes Secret Quotes Secret Life Quotes We Admit Quotes Wither Quotes Writing Quotes Writing Life Quotes

18 Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that…
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and…
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and…
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version…
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents…
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

See all 18 quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips »

More Admit Quotes

This quote is filed under Admit Quotes, one of 1,917 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

See all 1,917 Admit Quotes »