Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Phyllis A. Whitney
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese writer Phyllis A. Whitney.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
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.
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.
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.
I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.
I didn't learn to drive until I was 65 and my husband was seriously ill.
Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
I tell a good story.
A writer is what I am.
The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.
I've always done what I wanted to do.
A map is not a journey.
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.
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.
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
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.
But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.
One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
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.
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
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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