Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist known for her distinctive narrative style and profound insights into human nature. Her works often explore themes of family, identity, and memory, with 'Lark and Termite' and 'Machine Dreams' being her most celebrated novels.
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“Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.”
“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.”