Great Writing Quotes by Author Phyllis A. Whitney

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

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.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft – then you can add all the genius you like.

“As good as” always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be “as good as”; he (or she) must be “better than.”

“Reading” had always been my lifeline – an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...

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