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...
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.
great hoped miss time
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for, ... But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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.
anyone few
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
across gulf pathos watched
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
suggested
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
continue interest nasa studies
Hopefully, if you continue studies and your interest in space, we'll see you at NASA in another 10 years.
bad keeper
I'm bad with numbers. My husband is the keeper of the records.
past accountability insult
It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.