The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradis…

- Jayne Anne Phillips

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

- Jayne Anne Phillips

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other)…

- Jayne Anne Phillips