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...
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.
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.
family female interested love
I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
against coast cover exactly feels feisty final heroine island isolated maine reflects refuses setting spirit stacked
The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.
actors ability
The only power an actor has is the ability to say: 'No