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.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.