Quotes by Phyllis A. Whitney - Page 1

I tell a good story.
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Good Story
Good Story Tell
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A map is not a journey.
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Journey
Maps
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A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
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Book
Good Book
Written
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Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
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Stories
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The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.
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Solving
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I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.
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Beautiful Places
Places
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I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
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Suitable
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I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.
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Ill
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But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.
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Buried
Emotion
Feelings
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One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
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Alive
Too Late
Wonderful
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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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Television
Throwing
Writing
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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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Book
Perseverance
Writing
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Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
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Better Now
Concentration
Unusual
Tapes
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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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Disappointment
Pay The Price
Writing
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I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.
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Endings
Letting
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People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.
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Creative
Flow
Higher
Higher Power
Inside
Talents
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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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Character
Order
Writing
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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Finish
Previous
Published
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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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Home
Successful
Writing
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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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Reading
Taken
Years
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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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Book
Race
Writing
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