Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
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.
real thinking hands
Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort of thinking you might want to do that for me." She shook her head and leaned back on one elbow, giving him her witchiest, bitchiest smile. "Strip." "Now, listen here, Francie--" Lifting a languid hand, she once again pointed toward the center of the room. "Do it real slow, good-looking," she purred. "I want to enjoy every minute.
against coast cover exactly feels feisty final heroine island isolated maine reflects refuses setting spirit stacked
The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
thinking ideas diversity
Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.
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.
book hero character
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my books. I usually write a secondary love story, with maybe nontraditional characters. Sometimes I write older characters. I'm interested in female friendships, and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
book hard-work trying
I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.
home drunk guy
Mummy’s coming home late tonight. It’ll be just we guys, so we can get drunk and watch porn.
men trying body
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
build high internal laboratory points space station
For me, one of the high points is the internal build up of the space station with new laboratory equipment.
inspiration thinking misery
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.