24 Quotes by Phyllis A. Whitney

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements at the back of your mind to guide you while you write. When you have written a scene, make sure they are all there, or that if one or another is missing, it is intentional and the effect is what you want.

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.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it’s never too late.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren’t very good in the beginning.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don’t know what we can do about writing.

A map is not a journey.