There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, … - Phyllis A. Whitney

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Phyllis A. Whitney

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.

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

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

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

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

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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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