34 Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

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.

I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.

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.

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.