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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.

- Jayne Anne Phillips
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

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

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

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.

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

I wish I had more time to write.

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.