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.
From Jayne Anne Phillips
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
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