Jayne Anne Phillips

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.

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.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Art is a continuum.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.