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“One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.”
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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Too Late Quotes
#Alive Quotes
#Wonderful Quotes
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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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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Perseverance Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.”
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Phyllis A. Whitney
Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (2017). “Hunter's Green”, p.5, Open Road Media
#Feelings Quotes
#Emotion Quotes
#Buried Quotes
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“A map is not a journey.”
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Phyllis A. Whitney
Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1988). “Guide to Fiction Writing”, Writer
#Journey Quotes
#Maps Quotes
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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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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Disappointment Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Rejection Quotes
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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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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Taken Quotes
#Reading Quotes
#Years Quotes
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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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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Race Quotes
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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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Phyllis A. Whitney
#Writing Quotes
#Home Quotes
#Successful Quotes
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“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
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Phyllis A. Whitney
Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1945). “The Silver Inkwell”
#Book Quotes
#Good Book Quotes
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“Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.”
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Phyllis A. Whitney
Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1985). “Writing juvenile stories and novels: how to write and sell fiction for young people”, Writer
#Stories Quotes
