“Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.”
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Famous Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
“Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.”
Source: Lark and Termite
“When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.”
Source: Quiet Dell: A Novel
Source: Black Tickets: Stories
“As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.”
“I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.”
“The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.”