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...
born forth resembles sitting springs
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
brought good leading man tears
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
business
Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
sexy jesus faithful
He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.
Everybody’s afraid of something.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
build high internal laboratory points space station
For me, one of the high points is the internal build up of the space station with new laboratory equipment.
guild member subversive
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.
builds image inside maybe periods tension time via work
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
books chick cry fits women
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.
adult bind both business divided divorced kids though
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.
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.