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If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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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
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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. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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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. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I think we really forget how connected we are to the past. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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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
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Love is the outlaw's duty. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I don't write a novel every two years. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Talk between women friends is always therapy ... -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I wish I had more time to write. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
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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