Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Jayne Anne Phillips quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.”
“I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.”
“I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.”
“I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.”
“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.”
“I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.”
“Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.”
“It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.”
“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 going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.”
“Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.”
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