I don’t investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. Jayne Anne Phillips Read Quote
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. Jayne Anne Phillips Read Quote
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. Jayne Anne Phillips Read Quote
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. Jayne Anne Phillips Read Quote
I don’t do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. Jayne Anne Phillips Read Quote
