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
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
war moving air
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
writing secret life-is
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
loyalty firsts morality
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.
therapy
Talk between women friends is always therapy...
wind silence vibrations
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.
men trying body
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
country memories distance
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.
fall old-year wind
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
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.