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Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

American - Novelist | 1952 -

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.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Mother Parent She Theory Her Been

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.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Business Loyalty Parents Mean Two

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Who Writer Sentence Proceeds

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Kind Listen Inside Whisper Outline

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character Words Voice Story

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Music Words Sound Write Line Weight

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Together Because Paragraph Much Very

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Me Writing Build Inside Up Things

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Trying Write Everything Get Divinity

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Work Moving Book See I See

I don't write a novel every two years.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Write Two Years Novel Every

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.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Doing Important Tell Students Being

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