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
writing secret life-is
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
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.
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 books children valued war women
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.
trying
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
work
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
carefully paragraph
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
larger provides writers
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
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.
suggested
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.