Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer, born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
love-is outlaw duty
Love is the outlaw's duty.
sight silence listening
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
writing wish more-time
I wish I had more time to write.
writing weight lines
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
towns hometown grows
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
I don't write a novel every two years.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
theory
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.
war moving air
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
believe writing practice
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.
men trying body
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.