Top 17 Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips

I wish I had more time to write.

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

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.

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

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.

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.