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Jayne Anne Phillips
American Novelist
Born: 1952
About Had Inside Words Write Writing
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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. Jayne Anne Phillips
Mother Other Parent Writers Had She Were Been Theory Many Her
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. Jayne Anne Phillips
Writer Proceeds Sentence Who
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. Jayne Anne Phillips
Kind Inside Outline Material Listen Whisper
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves. Jayne Anne Phillips
Character Words Voice Story Themselves Suggested
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words. Jayne Anne Phillips
Music Words Write Weight Sound Line
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together. Jayne Anne Phillips
Together Carefully Paragraph Put Because Very Rewriting Much Each
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book. Jayne Anne Phillips
Work Book See Continuum Moving
I don't write a novel every two years. Jayne Anne Phillips
Every Write Years Novel Two
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self. Jayne Anne Phillips
Writing Stay Writers Self Provides Than Who Reasons Larger Guarantees

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