Phyllis A. Whitney famous quotes

03-26-2025

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Too Late #Alive #Wonderful
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Perseverance #Book #Writing
But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Feelings #Emotion #Buried
A map is not a journey.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Journey #Maps
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Disappointment #Writing #Rejection
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.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Taken #Reading #Years
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.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Book #Writing #Race
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.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Writing #Home #Successful
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Book #Good Book
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
-- Phyllis A. Whitney

#Stories

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