Ten of My Favorite Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Phyllis A. Whitney, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Phyllis A. Whitney you will find my Ten favorites of Phyllis A. Whitney’s quotes.
About Phyllis A. Whitney
The American mystery writer Phyllis Ayame Whitney (1903 – 2008) is best known for her work. She wrote mysteries for both the juvenile and adult markets, many of which featured exotic locations, a rarity for her genre. The New York Times once called her “The Queen of the American Gothics”.
Born in Japan to American parents, she spent her early years in Asia. A total of more than seventy novels were written by Whitney. She won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1961 for The Mystery of the Haunted Pool and again in 1964 for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand. She received the Grand Master Award from the MWA in 1988. Whitney died of pneumonia on February 8, 2008, at the age of 104.
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Popular Quotes
“A good book isn’t written, it’s rewritten.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
“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 Whitney
“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 are learning your craft — then you can add all the genius you like.”
― Phyllis Whitney
“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.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney
“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.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing
“Reading” had always been my lifeline– an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy…”
― Phyllis Whitney
“There was a brass bedstead with a tan spread, on which slept a big, tiger-striped yellow cat.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, The Trembling Hills
“San Francisco was invigorating. She looked about in utter delight.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, The Trembling Hills
“Broken hearts mend. It’s a lot harder to mend broken lives.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney
“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”
― Phyllis A. Whitney
10 Famous Quotes by Author Phyllis A. Whitney
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One Final Bonus – Phyllis A. Whitney Quote
“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.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney
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