Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes
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A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
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You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
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There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
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Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
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I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.
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Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
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One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
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But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.
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It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.
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Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
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A map is not a journey.
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Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.
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